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Subject: Re: How to build the *weakest* program

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 11:44:43 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 14:36:54, Omid David wrote:

>Change a few + and - signs in AlphaBeta search to choose the worst move at each
>node :-) This will result in the *weakest* possible engine. Although stronger
>programs will be able to find the worst moves more than others ;-)

Nah. Just change the values to:

Bishop = 1
Knight = 1
Rook = 1
Queen = 1
Pawn = 12

And watch it sac all of its pieces for pawns at the first opportunity.

                                        Albert

• Re: How to build the *weakest* program Omid David 11:46:51 08/20/02
  • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Bo Persson 12:32:21 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Gigi Aragon 21:11:22 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Gigi Aragon 21:07:52 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Tony Werten 13:16:39 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Daniel Clausen 13:08:47 08/20/02
      • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Bo Persson 10:30:55 08/21/02
      • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 14:12:40 08/20/02
        • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 15:34:29 08/20/02
          • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 20:16:03 08/20/02
            • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Daniel Clausen 00:49:18 08/21/02
              • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 01:24:02 08/21/02
                • Re: How to build the *weakest* program [OT] Daniel Clausen 02:00:23 08/21/02
            • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 20:48:30 08/20/02
              • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Russell Reagan 21:23:02 08/20/02
                • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 11:45:30 08/21/02
          • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 15:35:27 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Gian-Carlo Pascutto 12:37:41 08/20/02
  • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dieter Buerssner 12:03:55 08/20/02
    • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 12:06:07 08/20/02
      • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dieter Buerssner 12:34:10 08/20/02
        • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 16:10:45 08/20/02
  • Re: How to build the *weakest* program Dann Corbit 12:01:27 08/20/02

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