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Subject: Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:36:12 01/30/02

On January 30, 2002 at 00:55:28, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Kaissa was a brute force program. I have a book 'Games Programming' (in Russian)
>written by Kaissa authors and published in ~1977.

I don't believe it was a brute force program by any reasonable definition.
IE look up their "method of analogies" in how they did forward pruning.  That
doesn't sound like today's "brute force" idea..

They had a clever algorithm that could be used to forward prune based on the
idea that if in position X, a tactical flaw existed, then in many derivatives
of position X, the same flaw existed because non-useful moves had been tried
by the search...

They discussed this at the 1977 event in Toronto (which they didn't win, btw).

>
>Eugene

Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Eugene Nalimov 10:08:58 01/30/02
Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Thorsten Czub 08:02:10 01/30/02
- Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Uri Blass 11:46:02 01/30/02
  - Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Thorsten Czub 14:39:14 01/31/02
    - Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Eugene Nalimov 15:40:27 01/31/02
      - Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Thorsten Czub 10:46:40 02/01/02
        
        Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Eugene Nalimov 14:38:06 02/01/02
        
        Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Robert Hyatt 19:28:59 02/02/02
        
        Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Eugene Nalimov 21:48:23 02/02/02
        
        Re: KAISSA for PC, I'm the proud owner Steve Maughan 14:28:24 02/01/02

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