Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:05:54 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 16:56:51, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote: >Putting aside the usefullness of ETC, I would like to ask if ETC can only be >used with complete move generation up front (as opposed to generating moves by >category step by step). >Or, is there a way (if it does make sense) of generating diferent categories of >moves (like crafty does: hash move, captures, killers, history....) and using >ETC? > >Best regards, >Alvaro Cardoso Crafty doesn't quite do that. It generates captures and non-captures separately, but the others are really not "generated" so much as "just tried before moves are generated." In any case, for ETC you do need the complete move list although you _could_ generate the moves one at a time and try each. Once you try one that leads to a cutoff, you stop there...
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