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30494: RE: [MUD-Dev] Better Combat (long)

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From: "Matt Cruikshank" <mcruikshank@vitalimages.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:35:38 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Vincent Archer wrote:

> The evaluation function is typically what is the most critical
> function of the game. The fastest it is, the deeper you can go in
> the game. This is what was advertised in Deep Blue and the
> like. When they say "you can analyse 1.000.000 moves per second",
> what it means is: you can do a full board evaluation 1.000.000 per
> second.

That's a complete oversimplification, I believe.  I think that most
modern chess-playing systems don't do full board evaluations; they
use heuristics and do partial evaluations.

-Matt
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