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Subject: Re: About " Static Evaluation "

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:42:04 12/10/99

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The purpose of the quiescence search is to find positions where the static
evaluation function will return an accurate score.

-Tom

On December 10, 1999 at 19:28:38, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi bruce:
>explain me this, please: except extreme cases of a very unequal position, what
>sense has to evaluate something that will not be anymore once a move is done?
>seems to me like walking looking behind you how pretty has been the road and an
>abyss is waiting your next step. Of course there extensions, etc, but then,
>again, what purpose serve the static evaluation If the real thing comes from the
>future?
>fernando



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