Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:23:44 08/11/99
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On August 11, 1999 at 16:12:07, Tom King wrote: Your not missing a thing, and even worse, how do we eval accurate with SEE? In diep i don't know what happens with the eval after a piece has been exchanged. Score might change bigtime in a direction. No way to SEE that :) >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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