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Subject: Re: History Heuristic

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 19:36:45 07/05/04

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On July 05, 2004 at 21:59:38, Tor Lattimore wrote:

>Hi all.
>Is it a good idea to add capture moves to the history heuristic? It seems like
>it possibly might not be, but not sure if it makes a difference. Just as a side
>note, captures would never be put in killers because they get searched soon
>anyway yes?
>Cheers
>Tor
>and good luck to all WCCC entrants.

Captures should always be handled very differently from non-captures for the
very simple and obvious reason that whether a given move to a square is a
capture or not has an enormous impact on the nature and likely value of the
move.



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