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Subject: Re: hardware or software??

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 08:19:04 03/08/00

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On March 07, 2000 at 14:03:33, leonid wrote:

>In alpha-beta I am curious just about one moment. Attempt to find this tiny
>explantion in very general description could take too long time. Will try
>shortly say what is the question. Maybe you, or somebody else will grasp my
>exlantion and will privide me with expected answer.

If you're searching the moves at the root of the tree, and you find a score
between alpha and beta, then that's your best move. No need to search the tree
twice. Actually, I can't think of any reason why searching the tree twice would
make the program go faster.

>I think that separate mate solving unit is more that useful. Reason for this I
>see in the fact that mate solver (at least mine) don't go after material
>exchange at all. Its speed. In this logic only the fact that king is under the
>fire, or not, is taken in consideration. This permit to eliminate all possible
>"allergic reaction" that material exchange logics are so prone. Many good chess

But still, if you spend one minute looking for a mate and you don't find one,
then that's one minute that you've absolutely wasted.

-Tom



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