Author: Steve B
Date: 06:33:23 12/05/04
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>I do not understand why? > >Is there a reason that brure force is better for tactics and selective search >better for games. Uli i do not give my reply as a chess programmer only as a collector of dedicated chess computers every computer i ever owned that Employed the Shannon A B selective search algorithm and every manual and article i ever read on the subject suggests that if you use the Brute force option the computer will rarely miss any tactical shots because under this search method the computer will do a "full width" search but not go out many ply under" Selective search "the computer will look at increased ply but not search each ply to a great width therefore occassinaly, on Selective Search ,a dedicated unit can be surprised by a missed tactical response 3- 4 plys deep this rarely occurs on Brute Force searchs you must remember with dedicated units we are talking about machines running at perhaps 20-30 Mhz on 68000 processors perhaps this is not the same for PC programs running at 1000 times faster then this Steve
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