Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:38:14 12/11/99
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On December 10, 1999 at 22:31:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 Yes, I understood that from the beginning, BUt I believe you said that this static evaluation is performed in ANY node, so maybe not necesarily in the end of the tree. My question is for the reason to do so before that end of he analysis. fernando
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