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Subject: Re: Is the crafty approach to pondering the right one?+suggestion

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 09:46:06 05/24/00

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On May 24, 2000 at 10:28:57, Oliver Roese wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>This question is about pondering during the opponents time...
>Crafty does the following:
>It predicts the oppononts move, assuming "optimal" play and then starts to
>work until the opponent moves.
>If it predicts the opponents move correctly it has a great edge, otherwise
>only some hashtableentries.
>If it wouldnt predict the opponents move it would gain a small contribution to
>_every_ move.
>Obviously the better it predicts the opponents move, the better is the first
>method.
>From my experience as a mere chessplayer i would say the following:
>-Predicting the opponents move is very difficult even in games of the
>highest value (disregarding trivial cases and extraordinary circumstances).

It's not uncommon to predict moves correctly. Recaptures, for example, can be
predicted pretty easily and are not rare.

-Tom



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