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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:06:48 05/24/00

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On May 24, 2000 at 17:20:29, Mike S. wrote:

>On May 24, 2000 at 15:36:55, blass uri wrote:
>
>>The program has no idea about the difference between the best move and the
>>second move.
>
>Really not? And how does it choose which is the best one to expect? Maybe I
>would have to be a programmer to understand this. I seem to have a too simple
>idea of a search tree...(?)
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl


The algorithm is called alpha/beta.  And it finds what it thinks is the
best move, and proves all the other moves inferior without calculating
_how_ inferior they are...



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