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Subject: Re: Is there really any good alternative to alfa-beta search?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 01:47:18 06/09/98

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On June 09, 1998 at 04:11:18, Jouni Uski wrote:

>According to CSS magazine 2/98 Ulf Lorenz program P.Conners works
>without alfa-beta search and is still good (tactically very good).
>And it doesn't need any hash tables!

"P.Conners" is based on "parallel controlled conspiracy number search"
(PCCNS) which needs *much* more memory than any standard alpha-beta with
transposition tables because it keeps the whole search tree in RAM ...

As for tactical power, any decent program running on 40x P-II 266MHz
should not be too weak in this respect, should it?

=Ernst=

• Re: Is there really any good alternative to alfa-beta search? Christophe Theron 11:08:46 06/09/98
  • Re: Is there really any good alternative to alfa-beta search? Vincent Diepeveen 07:25:14 06/10/98
• Re: Is there really any good alternative to alfa-beta search? Jouni Uski 02:19:15 06/09/98
  • Re: Is there really any good alternative to alfa-beta search? Robert Hyatt 06:49:14 06/09/98

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