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Subject: Re: A new(?) technique to recognize draws

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 22:54:19 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 18:28:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On June 03, 2002 at 09:04:16, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>Thanks for your kind reply Heiner,
>
>PN search is a very interesting way to search, yet
>it is a very childish form to search with compared to CNS
>search. See some papers from Ulf Lorenz.
>
>Only kids toy with PN search.
>
>CNS search is more interesting as you can involve other
>situations.
>
>I hope you appreciate my approach that i do not
>waste more of my time to this thread than referring to Ulf.
>
>My only comment is to make some concrete implementation and
>face the problems instead of discussion for 20 years something
>which is not going to happen.
>
>Ulf made P.Conners. From all the thousands of people who
>guess you can solve parts of the game tree of chess by some weird
>approach he is the only guy who actually *made* something that
>works.

Initially, Heiner was talking about an 2 piece EGTB approach for special
situations. And that is something that works, since I have already implemented
this for certain types of positions some months ago (not yet for perpetual
check).

regards
Rafael B. Andrist



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