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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