Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:01:54 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 17:23:36, leonid wrote: >What is "well knows and the best method" is the most obscure place in chess >programming. I see this from my own experiece. Already many parts in my game I Yes and no. Here is a list of stuff: 1) quiescence search 2) forward pruning 3) extensions 4) hash table 5) generating pseudolegal moves 6) ordering captures first 7) not having a separate search for mate 8) not having a multiple-pass search 9) not doing radically different things depending on current ply # I bet that the top chess programs have at least 8 out of 9 of these characteristics. Your program seems to have 0 out of 9. Doesn't that strike you as odd? >Tom, "quick logic" for soving the mate containg position is beyond everything >that can other logic provide. Beside its great use at the end of the game, it is I still have no idea what "quick logic" means, but if you do well at a tournament and you are using quick logic, then I will try it, too. -Tom
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