Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 20:02:51 12/28/03
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On December 28, 2003 at 22:37:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Thx (nt)
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