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Subject: Re: What is "static evaluation" ?

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 23:50:00 12/08/99

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On December 09, 1999 at 00:30:50, Paulo Soares wrote:

>Thanks,
>Paulo Soares, from Brazil

As I understand it that's an evaluation of a position without looking deeper in
the tree of chess-moves. The capturing part of it is also called Static Exchange
Evaluation, or SEE. Based on the static evaluation the program may decide to use
the movegenerator again to look deeper or decide to "back the evalution up", not
look deeper and give the score back to moves closer to the root. I believe it is
called static but that doesn't mean it doesn't look at moves in that position at
all, the program may generate a table for instance that for every square looks
how many attackers and defenders there are, so it has a relatively accurate
picture of how "safe" a piece on that square will be or is.

Well, the programmers will undoubtedly start shooting now if this is completely
incorrect..:)

 Eelco



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