Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 02:18:46 12/12/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 13:41:52, Christophe Theron wrote: >You are right. Programmers have discovered a long time ago that an indirect way >to do it is to let their program get a material advantage and dragging it on >until the endgame. Then from that point mating becomes an easy problem to solve. > >The advantage is that it is much simpler to program, and the result is almost >the same. However, the problem is that these programs tend to play checkers, not >chess. > >My program was one of these until recently. > >Now I try to reach the mating stage much earlier in the game, but I can tell you >it is much more difficult! :) > Christophe welcome in the club ! there are enough seats free. take one. may i introduce you to the other guys ... :-)
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