Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:52:48 04/14/00
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On April 14, 2000 at 14:41:08, KarinsDad wrote:
>On April 13, 2000 at 20:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>You are talking about "forward pruning" which is full of danger. Your
>>eval likely doesn't understand deep tactics, yet you will be letting it
>>dictate which moves you search looking for tactics and which you don't.
>>
>>It is _very_ difficult to do this and not cause huge search problems...
>
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>That is why Fathom will be so dangerous ("yeah, right" says all of the old
>programmers). It does a type of forward pruning. Whether it will be successful
>with this, only time will tell.
>
>KarinsDad :)
I hope you'll succeed. If you were going to create just another Crafty-nullmove
clone, it would not be interesting.
Don't go for the easy way, try to find yours. It will be VERY difficult, but
much more interesting.
In the early days of computer chess, programmers were much more creative. Many
gave up, and it's too bad.
Christophe
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