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

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 02:19:15 06/09/98

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On June 09, 1998 at 04:47:18, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>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=

Thanks for info. CSS story was a little misleading and incorrect so I
got there
wrong info.



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