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Subject: Re: What about effeciency?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 00:40:18 09/25/98

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On September 24, 1998 at 16:11:54, John Coffey wrote:
>
>This brings up another issue:  Crafty (and for all I know, other programs)
>will generate the entire move list at each branch before searching deeper.
>It might do some ordering too.  But it might not be necessary to look at
>all these moves, so the time spent generating some of the moves could be >wasted.

Dear John,

I am not that intimate with how "Crafty" does it but I definitely know
that "DarkThought" does *not* generate all moves before starting to
search deeper. Please have a look at the Section "Search Engine" of my
article "How DarkThought Plays Chess" to read about the details. The
article is available on our WWW page at URL

<http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/DarkThought/>.

=Ernst=




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