Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:20:30 07/21/04
Hi, This is probably old news to many, but I ran across the pages of Michael Buro (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mburo/), and saw an article on ProbCut, highly recommending it, and even mentioning its inclusion in a version of Crafty 18.15. "ProbCut works in chess on top of null-move search! Download mpc_crafty_18.15.tgz to play with it. We encourage all chess programmers to experiment with ProbCut!" One can download the article "ProbCut: An Effective Selective Extension of the Alpha-Beta Algorithm" on his page of publications (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mburo/publications.html) as well as a follow-up article "A.X. Jiang and M. Buro, First Experimental Results of ProbCut Applied to Chess", Proceedings of the Advances in Computer Games Conference 10, Graz 2003. For new programmers looking for material, this is certainly one, plus it might be added to the links in the Computer Chess Resource Center. Albert
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