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

Author: Omid David

Date: 11:46:51 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 14:44:43, Albert Silver wrote:

>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

What you described results in a very poor program. What I suggested was a
sophisticated search algorithm to build the weakest possible program, so that no
one can ever lose to it ;-)

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  • 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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