Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:37:18 12/28/03
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On December 28, 2003 at 21:35:58, Bob Durrett wrote: > > >Bob: > >There is an interesting thread in progress regarding using the evaluation >function to shape the search tree, or at least new ways to do that. I would >curious to know whether or not or to what extent that sort of thing is done in >Crafty. If you have not pursued this idea very much so far in Crafty, what >might you do in the future wrespto this idea? > >Do you agree that there is great potential in that idea? [My gut feel is that >there is.] > >Bob D. It is a reasonable idea. I simply don't do it at the present. But the idea is that you _could_ use feedback from the evaluation to guide the search. IE to trigger extensions (or reductions or outright forward pruning). As I have said many times in the past, I think there are _multiple_ paths that lead to the same final result (strong chess play). Whether this is better or worse than other approaches to manage the size of the search space is unknown.
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