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Subject: Re: bad crafty move vs good-boy + speculation on alternate eval structur

Author: David Eppstein

Date: 12:46:44 10/01/98

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On September 30, 1998 at 15:46:33, Komputer Korner wrote:
> This is probably the way that CSTAL does it, but it is hellishly complicated
> and results of computer vs computer tests have not been encouraging for the
> DOS version of CSTAL. Maybe the windows version will be better.

I don't think Chris has told us what CSTAL does, but I was under the impression
that its eval is more or less normal (except for having more knowledge than most
so it can come up with a reasonable number even in non-quiescent positions) and
that the mysterious "Tal function" is not in the eval, but is instead something
to do with choosing how to expand the tree -- back when Chris was talking about
it he said things about how it could win even with many fewer nodes than other
programs, because it had a different set of nodes.



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