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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