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Subject: Re: hard question about SEE and crafty - it only needs 4 iterations ?

Author: scott farrell

Date: 05:47:44 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 06:04:20, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 09, 2004 at 05:36:57, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>You can make the sequence shorter if you only want to know if it's a winner or
>>loser, but not if you want to know how much it wins or loses (AFAICT).
>
>On second thought, I guess it is possible to cut the whole thing short in some
>cases.
>Say there are two winning swapoffs in a row, e.g. PxQ QxP NxQ then we can stop,
>PxQ wins a queen.

yeh, I have been thinking about it more.

I think I am correct with those lowest and highest possible scores.

I think it could be a bound to the whole SEE thing, once either bound is passed,
you can guarantee one side is going to stand-pat at the point or before, and you
can return the bound instead and stop any further captures. Which is what I
think you said Sune, but in more words.

It might not make much difference in speed though.

I did like your position on order of captures, very interesting - thanks for
that position.

Scott

>
>-S.



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