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Subject: Re: Proof number & conspiracy search

Author: Andrzej Nagorko

Date: 06:56:03 08/29/02

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On August 29, 2002 at 09:23:22, Eli Liang wrote:

>Is Sjeng the only chess program that has implemented proof number search?  Why
>should that be?

  Proof number search is important in games where there long, forced mating
sequences are common. This is important only in some chess variants like
crazyhouse and suicide chess and not in regular chess. Sjeng plays both
variants, that is why it uses pn-search.

  I think all top suicide chess engines have pn-search implemented.

Andrzej



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