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Subject: welcome in the new-paradigm club :-)

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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