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Subject: Algorithms matter more...?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 12:53:33 05/11/02


I've heard people talk about how it matters more which algorithms you use more
than it matters what language you choose or doing little optimizations here and
there. I'm curious if this means that instead of worrying about if "this will
run a little faster if I use a pointer instead of a global variable", they
recommend that I should spend my time worrying about algorithms.

Well, I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to do this. I mean, as far as I know,
there are alpha-beta and it's cousins, null move, etc. So what exactly am I
supposed to be worrying about? One thing that comes to mind is working on better
move ordering for alpha-beta. Is this an example of what you mean by "working on
using better algorithms"?

Anyway, if someone could explain this and give some examples of what is meant by
this, I would appreciate it.

Russell



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