Author: David Dory
Date: 09:15:41 08/05/02
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On August 05, 2002 at 06:24:33, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>Well that is not because Go is difficult, but because most Go programmers seem >>to try to use the Botvinnik "method". IMHO this will never work. > >What is the botvinik "method" > >I know no chess program who tried to use that method. >I remember that I read about his ideas but the problem is that there was no >clear definition of his ideas. > >Uri Botvinik's method was the method of analogies. Basically, he sought to restrict the search tree to positions which had changed "enough" to require a new search, and otherwise to use the values already stored from the evaluation of a very similar position. It never worked, in any program, AFAIK. His program's name was Pioneer, and it's lack of success is why you probably never heard of it outside a CC historical book. David
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