Author: Tom King
Date: 13:12:07 08/11/99
I must be missing something obvious with using SEE to prune in the Q. search. If I understand right, "losing" captures (according to the SEE) are pruned right out. But I fail to see how this won't screw up big time. Let's take an example. Now assume we have a white bishop on G5 and a black knight on F6, and the knight is protected by a pawn on G7. Now the SEE might well assume that BxN is a loser (assuming that the bishop is worth a fraction more than the knight), because after BxN, gxB, white has lost a bishop for a knight. But it might be that this is in fact a very good capture, because it destroys black's kingside. And a program with the SEE Q. pruning might not want to play this? Am I missing something obvious here? Cheers Tom
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