Author: martin fierz
Date: 20:49:45 03/28/02
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On March 28, 2002 at 20:52:35, William Kerr wrote: >The new feature for chess programs would be a way to stop an analysis of a >position and store the analysis state (including hash tables) so it can be >reloaded at a later time and the computer analysis pick up where it left off to >analyze further. > >In this way you could analyze the same position several hours per day and over a >number of days to log 100s of hours of total program analysis. i programmed a checkers program, and use something like this to generate an opening book. i take the initial position, and have my engine search each possible move. once done, these values are stored to disk. then i go on expanding more promising lines (with higher values), but also expand less good lines, just to make sure it doesnt miss anything. i've had this thing running for weeks for some checkers openings, and i can just switch it off anytime i want, and back on again when i have spare computer time for it. it's really nice :-) i use this for the opening book generation, but in principle you can use exactly this method to do a search anywhere. aloha martin
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