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Subject: Re: An idea: Offensive and defensive mobility

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 10:23:08 02/06/04

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On February 06, 2004 at 13:19:50, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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!

This is what happens when you operate a chess program in a tournament.  Now that
he has been infected by the chess programming virus, it is all over for poor
Slate . . . .

anthony



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