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Subject: Re: Analysing while retracting moves

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 09:17:39 11/22/01

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On November 22, 2001 at 11:46:24, Gordon Rattray wrote:

>
>
>So if there was a chess match consisting of "average human + top level chess
>program" versus a grandmaster, at a standard time control (40 in 2hrs, say),
>you'd recommend that the average human uses the "step back and forth" approach
>rather than just letting the program analyse the root position for the time
>period of a given move?
>
>Gordon
>

I do not know what I would recommend or what I would do if I, with the help of a
top level chess program, were to face a grandmaster.
That depends a lot on the functionality of the program. What I would like to be
able to do is to travel the search tree freely while the engine analyses the
root position, and then arbitrarily prune some moves for the program (at any
depth), i.e. to tell the engine "do not even bother to consider this move in
this position". I would use it only on very obvious mistakes.
I do not know if any current program allows what I have in mind.
José.



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