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Subject: Re: why write a fast chess program ?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:07:58 08/18/02

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On August 17, 2002 at 19:50:25, William H Rogers wrote:

>The main reason for making chess programs run fast is that they have to examine
>millions of moves and that all takes time. The faster a program run the deeper
>it can examine all of the possible moves on the table. Even if you had the most
>sofistecated evaluation routine, you would still want the program to run as fast
>as possible to insure that you had chosen the best move available to you program
>in the allowed amount of time, reguardless of how deep you searched.
>Bill

But the idea here is that if you have an extremely sophisticated evaluation, you
might not *have* to search millions and billions of stupid moves to find the
good ones.

The only problem is that nobody seems to know how to create this kind of
evaluation. Research opportunity!


Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com



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