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Subject: Re: Speed and horizont effect

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:50:15 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 15:34:39, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 24, 2000 at 09:10:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>I suspect that one commercial program is doing no capture search, but may be
>>using a static exchange evaluator to prevent the last move in a PV from
>>being an outright blunder.  Seems to be working.  No names to protect the
>>guilty, however.  :)
>
>
>
>I'm really curious about this. Using a SEE to "close" the search is in my
>opinion a beginner's mistake (no offense intended).
>
>It's the first thing I have done myself when I started programming chess, and I
>suspect many of us have followed the same path.
>
>But if somebody tells me it really works, then I have, once again, to reconsider
>seriously all I know about chess programming.
>
>It's not new anyway. Every now and then I realize how little I know. That's part
>of the fun.

The program hyatt talk about is probably Junior.

Uri




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