Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:15:38 03/10/01
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On March 10, 2001 at 12:02:37, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>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 !!
Anyway I suspect that this Next Best function was originally a debug tool. He
just made this tool public, without trying to make it more user friendly.
Christophe
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