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Subject: Re: Evaluation at start versus eval at node. Why not mix them?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 09:30:27 06/11/99

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On June 11, 1999 at 10:15:19, Torstein Hall wrote:

>Its known that Fritz and some other fast programs reach their high nps because
>they do their evaluation mainly at the start of the search.
>
>Is it not possible to mix this up a bit. So that you do a "big eval" at the
>start, then at certain depths in the search. Or even better, if some condition
>sets in, like swap of queeen, endgame etc, then do a new thorough eval, else
>just the fast eval?
>
>But perhaps some programs do it that way already? Or perhaps its just not
>possible to implement?
>
>
>Torstein

	Novag Super Constellation did more or less what you describe, and it was a
succesful stand-alone machine on its day.
José.



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