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Subject: Re: quiesce node explosion

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:03:08 01/26/04

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On January 26, 2004 at 14:25:35, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 26, 2004 at 13:36:00, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>  Sorry, now I don't get it.
>>  You mean you do this before generating moves? So you enter qsearch, evaluate
>>the position, check you don't have any hanging pieces, check the biggest enemy
>>attacked piece, calculate a SEE for capturing that piece (you actually
>>"generate" a capture here at least), test the expected gain against Beta+Margin,
>>and if it is bigger you just fail high???
>
>Yes, this is almost correct.  Only the order of the operations is slightly
>different.  I detect hanging pieces for both sides and the expected material
>gain by capturing them as part of my evaluation function.
>
>>Sounds interesting. I always get suprised at how creative these young talents
>>are... ;)
>
>I'm neither creative, young nor talented, I'm afraid.  :-)

I think that you creative and talented.
I believe that non creative not talented people usually do not learn
mathematics.

I believe that not a lot of mathematicians were involved in developing chess
programs and this is the reason that chess programs are so weak relative to what
they could be in case that the problem was attacked by more people who like
mathematics.

Uri



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