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Subject: Re: Strategy vs Tactics in Computer Programs

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:00:51 04/20/02

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On April 20, 2002 at 13:55:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>Humans may think like this:
>f5 is a good square for the white knight because by getting there it can attack
>the weak pawn d6.
>
>The shortest way to go with the knight to f5 is Nb1-d2-f1-g3-f5 so let extend
>thess moves.
>
>I believe that no program with known source code calculates in that way.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'extend', but Bionic understands
'routing' knights to better squares.

Hans Secelle explained me how he did this, and I was very impressed.

I'm not giving out the details this time :)

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GCP



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