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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