Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 06:24:49 05/03/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 06:17:58, Francis Monkman wrote: > >On May 03, 1999 at 05:45:19, David Blackman wrote: > >>This is a bit tricky with alpha-beta because you don't get exact evaluation for >>anything except the "best" move. Hence the idea of using node counts. Any other >>ideas for finding 'expectation-value'? > >So how come ChessBase analysis is able to display 'n' (I haven't tried past >about 30, and generally use 7) lines of analysis, all with regularly updated >scores? It's largely through watching the relative performances of moves during >the search that led me to realize that here was a large amount of quantifiable >information about 'the state of the game', that seemed to be just wasted... > >Francis I don't have ChessBase, but I think any such feature must be based on doing n searches - which should be n times slower. If you ask for the best two moves does it take (a little less than) twice as long? Perhaps I'm missing something? Andrew
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