Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:19:47 03/16/99
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On March 16, 1999 at 16:30:59, Pat King wrote:
>A number of my evaluation terms get updated at every node... Force, Space,
>CtrCtl, Material. So all of them are available at the end of QSearch if I want
>them. My question is, are the terms other than Force worth anything after
>QSearch? If so, how might one weight them differently than in the full blown
>evaluation?
>
>Pat
Every positional term is important during QSearch. If you don't evaluate them in
QSearch you can miss very important positional exchanges, especially queen
exchanges or important pawn structure changes.
You can maybe use lazy eval to avoid evaluating everything. But this is risky
anyway.
Christophe
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