sacrifice test

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kaustubh

sacrifice test

Post by kaustubh »

Can there be sacrifice test in the chess engine search ,where the chess engine sacrifices a piece and sees whether it can get good values in that particular branching nodes. Will it make the chess engine more tactical , will it improve the search better.
YL84

Re: sacrifice test

Post by YL84 »

Hi,
sacrifices are taken into account inside the search itself with classical algorithms like Alpha-Beta,Quiescence,...If it is tactical and the gain is
not too far, the engine will find it. The big problem is positional sacrifices
that human can do but chess engines have difficulties to handle,
cause the evaluation functions are usually too simple...
yves