Author: Keith Evans
Date: 11:46:17 06/07/02
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On June 07, 2002 at 09:42:05, Rémi Coulom wrote: >On June 06, 2002 at 14:13:11, Keith Evans wrote: > >>On June 06, 2002 at 13:51:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>There is a chess program called Wilhelm found here: >>>http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/ >>> >>>It also has the most genuinely interesting visualization idea since Remi's chess >>>tree graphs. He shows EGTB information graphically. >>> >>>Definitely worth examination. >>> >>>Here is a document that describes it: >>>http://home.tiscalinet.ch/kruandr/Wilhelm-Readme%20(En).pdf >> >>I was intrigued by your mention of the chess tree graphs, so I did a little >>searching and found them here: >> >>http://remi.coulom.free.fr/treemap/treemap.html >> >>Is anybody using this idea? Is it useful? (Should I have searched through the >>archives before posting these questions?) >> >>Regards, >>Keith > >Currently, I have not had time to use this tool a lot, so I cannot really say >how useful it can be. Anyway, it is _much_ more convenient to browse a search >tree with a treemap than with any other method I know, and taking a close look >at trees generated by my chess program has always been a source of ideas of >improvement for me. I won't be browsing through pages of text dump anymore, that >is for sure. > >Besides, I have a lot of ideas for potential improvements of the current viewer. >In particular, it could be easily used to visualize the differences between two >search trees (for instance, after changing an heuristic, or between plies). I >will also add a graphical board in a separate window so that nodes can be more >easily identified as the cursor moves over the map. > >Remi Thanks for the comments. I haven't ever written a chess program, so I can't truly appreciate the horror of paging through search logs. But I can imagine that it's neither fun nor easy to interpret. Sometime in the future I hope to work on a Chinese Chess program, so I'll keep this idea in mind. Thanks, Keith
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