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Subject: Re: hardware or software??

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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