Author: Paul
Date: 06:21:08 05/07/01
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On May 07, 2001 at 08:42:34, Heiner Marxen wrote: >Sorry for stepping in, again. You can step in anytime! :) >The Allis article is most probably a good introduction to PN search. I've got the thesis you mention below ... and have glanced through it once, but not read/studied it, will do. >Postscript is a quite common document form in the scientific community. >Practically every laser printer does understand it (without further >software support). I recommend to find a solution for that. >Otherwise, find a friend with a Linux system, which has ghostscript by >default, the GNU postscript viewer. Oh ... I have & have used GhostView, is ok under W98, but I've had troubles with W98 a few weeks back, had to reinstall everything, hadn't done that for GV yet. You don't realize how many programs you use until you have to reinstall. >I have the dissertation of Dennis M. Breuker from 1998, "Memory versus Search >in Games" (got it from the web somewhere). It is 170 pages postscript, >but also is a quite complete and up to date discussion of PN search, >and a modified version PN^2 search. It contains examples and pseudo code. >For me it was a good reading. Ok ... will have a look. >Where it introduces PN search, it states that that chapter is an adapted >version of: D.M.Breuker, L.V.Allis & H.J. van den Herik: "How to Mate: >Applying Proof-Number Search", Advances in Computer Chess 7, pp 251-272, >University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands. >You could try to get this one e.g. in a University library. Ok ... will have another look. :) >A quick google search turns up: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~victor/thesis.html >a book by L. Victor Allis: "Searching for Solutions in Games and Artificial >Intelligence", obviously his thesis. Appears to be downloadable as postscript. > >Hope that helps. >Heiner It certainly does! Thanks, as always. ;) Paul PS: the fffff key seems to work ok again, cleaned my keyboard yesterday :) ... was annoying, had typed in a reply to a post of yours yesterday, but lost it when the key got stuck, haha ...
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