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Subject: Re: Genuinely interesting visualization tool

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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