Author: KarinsDad
Date: 22:25:24 04/14/00
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On April 14, 2000 at 19:52:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On April 14, 2000 at 14:41:08, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On April 13, 2000 at 20:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>[snip]
>>>
>>>You are talking about "forward pruning" which is full of danger. Your
>>>eval likely doesn't understand deep tactics, yet you will be letting it
>>>dictate which moves you search looking for tactics and which you don't.
>>>
>>>It is _very_ difficult to do this and not cause huge search problems...
>>
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>>That is why Fathom will be so dangerous ("yeah, right" says all of the old
>>programmers). It does a type of forward pruning. Whether it will be successful
>>with this, only time will tell.
>>
>>KarinsDad :)
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>I hope you'll succeed. If you were going to create just another Crafty-nullmove
>clone, it would not be interesting.
>
>Don't go for the easy way, try to find yours. It will be VERY difficult, but
>much more interesting.
Difficult?!? That's an understatement. However, it is fun (I just got back from
my Friday night coding session with my partner and we had a blast debugging).
It's weird to read stuff here and try to sort out what may work and what
definitely will not. It's almost a crap shoot due to our basic algorithms being
so drastically different. The interesting thing is that once in a while, an idea
pops out of these web pages, but it is often unrelated directly to the topic in
the message.
>
>In the early days of computer chess, programmers were much more creative. Many
>gave up, and it's too bad.
In the early days, programmers had more limitations as to what they could search
due to drastically reduced hardware. Therefore, they were almost forced into
some form(s) of selective search. However, they did not have the horsepower to
effectively come up with a "human-like" selective search. I'm hoping that
today's hardware will enable us to minimize tactical errors within a selective
search by spending a little more time trying to figure out where the tactical
pitfalls should lie (and thus avoiding them).
>
>
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> Christophe
Thanks for the words of encouragement.
KarinsDad :)
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