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Subject: Re: A new(?) technique to recognize draws

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:00:48 06/01/02

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On June 01, 2002 at 13:07:36, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>Why do you think that draws (even with large/long cycles) are recognized
>>easily with PN^2 ?  Do you have experience?  Data to share?  Theoretic
>>insight?
>As the problems with detecting long draws are depth based. A best first search
>seems appropriate. But to avoid duplicate work, a cache of already evaluated
>nodes need to be probed also. A modified PN search called Proof-Set Search by
>Martin Müller might be applicable.

Thanks!  Can be downloaded (ps orf pdf) via
    http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/publications.html

I havn't yet studied it thoroughly, but it sounds quite interesting
after a short look into it.  Also, Martin Müller seems to have more
to say about advanced search methods, maybe I'll read his other papers also.

Many thanks for the pointer!

>MvH Dan Andersson

Cheers,
Heiner



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