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

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 23:58:40 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 19:07:11, leonid wrote:

>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-

Leonid, where are you from?

Alessandro



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