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Subject: Re: Attempt to understand Leonids nomenclature...

Author: leonid

Date: 16:07:11 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 14:22:09, Andrew Dados wrote:


Thanks for response! It make me laugh a good moment. "Nomenclature" is funny
word.

>
>leonid                 others
>--------------------------------
>root                   leaves
>2 plys special search  futility pruning (?)

Not sure about this. If every search start with ply zero and goes x plys deep,
in my program I have in total 6 special plys. Two are just zero and one. I think
it have nothing to do with futility pruning. And between the other four, the
most different are two next plys that stays just at the bottom of all pile of
plys. If beyond those two next plys (above of bottom two plys) all other are not
written in the same way it is only because this different writing don't bring
any additional speeding to the program as a whole.

>tactics code           quiescence search

It could be that quiescence search is the part of tactics. Tactics for me is the
part of program that help when brute force search give no final response. This
happened just too often.


>mini-max               (hard to say; not a mini-max for sure)

Usual material search logic with move sorting and bounds removed. When every
move in the ply is searched.


>The above is just a guess, but somehow I have a feeling leonid is writing his
>program in quite the same way as most of us... if only we could speak some
>uniform language...

Maybe.

Leonid.

>-Andrew-



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