Author: Ed Trice
Date: 11:57:15 01/11/04
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Hi Bob, > >But wouldn't you miss winning combinations and positional sacrifices that way? >Many a game having a position in the game where one side is a rook down still >won the game! > >Perhaps your last sentence is to materialistic? > Depth cures all things, of course :) When you have an infinite sea of positions to examine, at some point you have to stop and make an evaluation. That evaluation is basically a "0 ply search" -- you are counting up the material. In the statistical sense, you should spend more time finding positions where you are a rook ahead rather than a rook behind. Material is still the dominant force in every evaluation, with the exception of some of the so-called "Trojan Horse Attacks" that are identified in the Crafty code.
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