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Subject: Re: Sacrifice Search

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:42:13 10/22/99

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On October 22, 1999 at 11:43:37, KarinsDad wrote:

>Does any program currently do a sacrifice search?
>
>By this, I mean the program intuits that a sacrifice may be in order (within the
>first 3 ply maybe), and then pretends that the sacrifice move is the PV and
>searches down it's ply to a deeper depth or somesuch in order to find out it's
>validity.
>
>Or, do all current programs only make a sacrifice if they perceive a definitive
>gain within the same ply depth as most other moves?
>
>KarinsDad :)


I find them via a normal search.  The point being that you should see how
many times a sacrifice works, how many times you 'think' it works, and then
figure out how much effort you spend proving that most don't work.  As
opposed to spending that effort on a normal tree search...




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