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Subject: Thx (nt)

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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