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Subject: Re: a simple question about how engines change their mind

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 07:35:48 01/21/06

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On January 20, 2006 at 20:29:04, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

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>
>engines try to exclude a number of bad lines quickly to improve depth of
>search.. Let's say one of those bad lines turns out to be good at a depth of 12.
>Once the line is excluded, how does the engine go back to it?
>
>for example, let's say a queen sack looks terrible at depth of 3, and its value
>is only discoverable at depth of 10. Once the queen sack is excluded at depth of
>3, how does the engine later discover that the queen sack was a good idea?
>
>naively yours,
>
>Joseph

No move is ever completely excluded. Moves are only emphasized or de-emphasized.
If you de-emphasize a move, it will take longer to understand it.

Vas



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