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

Author: Dave Dory

Date: 23:34:45 05/01/00

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On May 01, 2000 at 18:08:21, stuart taylor wrote:
>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

Stuart,

"Shuffling the pieces around constantly" awaiting future good placements for
your program would be an incredible weakness, easily exploited by humans.  If
your program "sees" (for example), an open file or rank, then it may be great to
post up a rook on it, but using this as a foremost priority (rather than a
search of the move tree), would be suicidal to decent play. IMHO.

Dave





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