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Subject: Re: About " Static Evaluation "

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 19:31:40 12/10/99

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

>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?

The reason you have a static evaluation is that you can't search indefinitely.
Eventually you have to say to yourself, I can't search this anymore, I need to
count the material and look at the pawn structure and try to guess at what is
going to happen, and I have almost no computational resources available to help
me do this.  Maybe you can delay this via extensions or other techniques, but
eventually you have to stop.

bruce





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