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Subject: Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 12:48:12 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 13:39:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Does anybody know which programs use which method and which aproach is yielding
>a better result?

All of todays chess programs use various forms of selective search.  Our
processors could not even begin to do full-width and complete 14 ply searches.
Brute force machines would need processors and memory millions of times as much
as even the Pentium IV 1.5 Ghz machines that just arrived today.

Full width or "brute force" is not a smart way to play chess.  Kramnik and
Kasparov are not brute force players.


Tim Frohlick

• Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? leonid 14:08:01 11/18/00
  • Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? Uri Blass 22:28:42 11/18/00
    • Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? leonid 09:44:38 11/19/00
      • Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? Uri Blass 10:09:06 11/19/00
        • Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? leonid 18:53:11 11/19/00
• Why use a 100 Megaton Bomb to take out one man? Timothy J. Frohlick 12:54:26 11/18/00
  • Re: Why use a 100 Megaton Bomb to take out one man? Fernando Villegas 17:59:45 11/18/00

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