Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 08:06:24 10/08/00
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On October 08, 2000 at 10:45:45, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 08, 2000 at 10:36:14, Heiner Marxen wrote: > >>On October 08, 2000 at 02:00:25, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>In fact, there's an entire Ph.D. thesis on it. >> >>Could you please give a more detailed hint / reference ? >>I have thought about this method myself, but expect a Ph.D. to >>contain even more interesting results. :-) >> >>Heiner > >Campbell, Murray S. Chunking for Abstraction. Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon >University, 1989. > >I don't know how easy it is to get hold of it -- it should be (relatively) >easier to get a copy of Computer Chess Compendium and check out the chapter on >coordinate squares there. > >Dave Thanks very much for the quick and accurate answer! I will try to get hold of both. I expect the Compendium to contain a sort of overview of the thesis, not a copy of the thesis, right? Since I am interested in all details, I will probably need the thesis. I will try to use this corresponding squares technique in Chest to prove (sometimes) that a position is a draw, and therefore cannot be won in any depth. Up to now, the usual search techniques cannot do this. For a stipulation "white plays and holds draw" I do not yet have any method to construct a positive answer. Of course, I do not yet know whether there will be a "practical" implementation (practical == fast enough), but I would like to try. Heiner
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