Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 09:02:37 03/10/01
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On March 10, 2001 at 11:58:09, Christophe Theron wrote: >Actually, no. I think Lang's programs were the first ones to provide this >feature. right. there is next best, also in other dedicated machines. but next best is not that powerful than multi variation mode. there you see the anaysis in one moment. you see the branches order themselves and you can watch them. genius next best was a serial stuff. multivariation is parallel :-)) >For example, in Psion Chess for PC (1985), there is a function called "Next >Best". By calling it repeatedly, you get all the best moves, sorted in >descending score order. > >That's what multivariation does. However multivariation does this at every ply >depth, when Next Best does it only at the targetted depth. But in principle the >two features are very close. right. the one is serially to watch, the other is parallel. makes it almost x-branches faster to watch !! > > Christophe
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