Author: Maurizio Monge
Date: 08:21:10 12/29/05
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> >...but I don't know if he is using it. For some reason there is a history of >misdirection on this topic. IIRC, some microcomputer program authors in the >80's dropped hints that they were using conspiracy numbers, at least near >evaluation endpoints; I think Kittinger used the term "nodulations". But there >is nothing in the open literature supporting this and later academic authors >came to the conclusion that conspiracy numbers didn't really work for chess. >David McAllester and Deniz Yuret finally published their revised work >(Alpha-Beta-Conspiracy Search. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March 2002), >pp.16-35), nearly ten years after their initial experiments with the >multiprocessor program Star-Socrates. I mentioned all this in an old post >lamenting the lack of recent published work on different search paradigms: > > http://hornid.com/cgi-bin/ccc/topic_show.pl?pid=286391#pid286391 > >If you can get any variety of conspiracy numbers to work for chess, please >publish your results! You can post your preliminary experiments here! :) > >-Walter Yup, thanks for your answer! Some day, when i'll have time, i will really try to do a few experiments with CNS, and should i succede i will let you know for sure :) Ciao Maurizio
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