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Subject: Re: The Alpha-Beta search!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 22:55:22 08/14/01

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On August 15, 2001 at 01:37:41, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On August 15, 2001 at 01:15:23, Leen Ammeraal wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>>You should make each move of the move list you generated,
>>and each time you should call the alpha-beta function just after
>>this move (and you unmake the move after this call). When a return
>>value of this function is better than all others so far,
>>you should store not only this value but also the move in question.
>>At the end you have both a value and the corresponding move.
>>Leen Ammeraal
>>http://home.wxs.nl/~ammeraal/
>
>Yeah, I think that is what my ABsearch function does.
>Maybe I need to flip the alpha and beta values when going from ABsearch to AB?
>I'm not sure, but something is wrong.
>
>-S.

http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/alphabeta.htm

I banged this out and put it on the web page rather than writing this up again.
Near the end of the page is the algorithm in pseudo-C that's not so pseudo that
you won't be able to code it.

bruce



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