Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 03:32:55 05/06/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 00:58:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >but also if anyone has any info to offer on other game playing programs >I'd like to hear that as well. I'm more a fan of game playing programs and AI >methods in general than only chess. > >One last thing I thought about was endgame tablebases. Are these available for >checkers or other games? It seems like it might be both faster and smaller to >generate the tablebases for checkers, but I'm not totally sure on that. There >are fewer pieces on the board and fewer squares of the board that are in use, so >it seems like endgame tablebases might play a more significant role if they were >created for checkers. > >Thanks for your info. > >Russell There is also great interest Shogi. Yesterday there was the 12th World Computer Shogi Championship. 56 teams competed. Unfortunately the games are not broadcast live as in chess. I do not think endgame databases play as much a role in shogi as in chess because of the rule that captured pieces can reenter the game. The tournament is at http://www.computer-shogi.org/wcsc12/index_e.html Shogi discussion is at http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/Archive/ Mark
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