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Subject: Re: Speed and horizont effect

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:31:01 01/25/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 15:50:15, blass uri wrote:

>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


Really???

Why do you think it's Junior?

Junior is said to have a huge NPS. Using a SEE at the end of the tree (in every
node actually) is supposed to drop your NPS considerably...


    Christophe



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