Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:18:57 03/06/00
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On March 06, 2000 at 14:28:58, leonid wrote: >Here not everything is clear to me. Are you putting all the time checking moves >at the head of the moves ligne or not? In my mate solving logic it is all the >time with exception of two plies. For now I don't remember exectly advantage Yes, I did it for every ply. >that this alignment of moves give but it was done only when statistics said to >me to do so. I never did anything in my game only after my personal taste. Like I said, I'm sure the heuristic works great for mate finders. Just not regular chess programs. >>(In other words, there is a good reason why nobody does this in their chess >>programs.) >Maybe everybody is right here as well as everybody is wrong. Even to write mate >solver for the chess game sound so new and wrong to everybody. For me it is very But why should programs spend their time searching for mate in positions where there's no mate to be found? And why have a special search for mate when the regular search can find mates perfectly fine? -Tom
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