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Subject: Re: An idea: Offensive and defensive mobility

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 10:19:50 02/06/04

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On February 06, 2004 at 12:12:18, Slater Wold wrote:

>Well of course.  If you could solve this, you could probably solve chess.
>
>When you do any kind of pruning, it's a trade off.  That it will help in more
>cases than it will hurt.
>
>I don't do any kind of pruning or null-move, YET, because of this.  I want to
>build my engine around how it evaluates positions, not around what it will never
>see.  (To explain better, I want a solid engine, with a good search & eval, and
>doing the things I want/need, and THEN I will try things to speed it up such as
>reductions & null-move, etc.)

Hi Slate,

I didn't know you had a program until just recently. How long have you been
working on your program? How is it coming along? Tell us some about it. What
language you're using, whether or not you chose one of the popular board
representations, or whatever. And good luck!



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