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Subject: Re: Lazy eval and mate scores question.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:21:09 07/12/05

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On July 12, 2005 at 15:04:33, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Hi, everyone.
>My question is, if we enter the evaluation function with both alpha and beta as
>mate scores does that interfere with lazy evaluation in any way?
>In this case the lazy evaluation will allways be returned in my engine, since
>piece square evals plus positions evals couldn't reach mate scores.
>Is this the way to do it? I mean simply ignore this case?
>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso


Should mean that there will be no lazy evaluations at all, since there is no
score that can be added/subtracted to the material score that will put you above
beta or below alpha...



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