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Subject: Selective search - explanation for a dumb user ?

Author: pete

Date: 14:12:57 06/22/00


On June 22, 2000 at 17:06:40, Chessfun wrote:

>>>
>>>SS = Selective Search Unless told to do otherwise, the computer
>>>considers every possible play and its implications to an infinite number of
>>>plays before making its next move. This makes for slow and, therefore
>>>relatively weak, play by the computer. The default here is 6, which means
>>>that the computer selectively disregards unpromising lines for the first six
>>>plies of the search. Beyond the selective search, it does a brute force
>>>Search of all possible remaining moves.
>>>
>>
>>This sounds a little messed up to my ignorant self ; after being selective in
>>the 1st 6 plies you suddenly do brute force in the far away regions of the tree
>>?
>>
>>I suppose I have yet _way_ to go ; this is nearly the opposite I would have
>>expected from a selective search .
>
>Maybe, but was cut and pasted out of CM6K.
>Thanks.

So it was probably written by someone who knows what he/she is talking about . I
would definitely like to understand this as it is probably a major
misunderstanding on my side . Maybe one of you chessprogrammers has a minute for
some very basic explanation ?

thanks in advance. pete



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