Author: James Robertson
Date: 11:47:46 06/12/99
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On June 12, 1999 at 14:10:38, KarinsDad wrote: >On June 12, 1999 at 13:39:21, James Robertson wrote: > >[snip] >> >>Anyway, if a human has a NPS of 3 (or in my case .2), doing a full eval doesn't >>really reduce the number of positions one could look at. :) >> > >Please explain this sentence. I didn't quite follow how this applies to a full >or partial eval for a program. > >Thanks, > >KarinsDad :) Torstein responded to another post that doing a full eval at the root and then partial evals higher up the tree was a more human way to search/score a position. I responded that if a human is only searching 3 positions a second, it does not really matter if you do a full or partial eval. I spend most of my time trying to decide what are legal moves, not evaling. :) James
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