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Subject: Re: chess programmers: what info do you need to make your program better?

Author: Michael Neish

Date: 18:11:56 05/01/00

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>good that someone asks this, as I don't think that any of the practicing
>programmers made even one comment about my question/thought on programming
>by getting the program to constantly shuffle round the peices to ideal-possible
>future positions and move according to that goal-if applicable according to much
>analysis and many criteria. OK, maybe it's a daft idea, but it must have been so
>daft that it isn't even worth trying to consider. Or perhaps it's so obvious
>that every programmer thought about it only as a baby. I, at any rate still
>don't know.
>S.Taylor

I don't think I qualify as a "practising programmer", but I say if you think you
have a good idea, then go for it.  It seems to me that most people are etching
and re-etching the same grooves over and over again, with no really fresh
approaches being taken.  And how many times in the past (in other areas) have
good ideas been shot down by the majority, only to be proved right in the long
run?  Maybe nobody knows a good answer to your question?

I seem to remember seeing a research paper or two on planning at the Yellow
Bishop Web site:

http://hoggy.virtualave.net/y.bishop/

Mike.





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