Author: Larry Griffiths
Date: 17:38:58 08/15/00
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On August 15, 2000 at 19:56:37, Brian Richardson wrote: > > >Rather than "generating" moves for the killers, try a quick is it still legal >routine. > >Regarding Tom's post: I cannot speak for a lot of programs, but at least for >Tinker and Crafty, doing killers before captures seems to work better. > >Brian Seems like I tried to do something like that in my last program. The from pieces would have to match, non-sliding moves would have to be empty squares or opposite colored pieces, and sliding pieces would have to see if their path is blocked by the previous plys move. I think I like killers (which kind of works like a principle continuation for me) because I do iterative deepening and the killers near the root plys keep the branching factor lower as the plys increase. I mainly like iterative deepening because I can stop the search when time gets low... Larry.
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