Author: John Coffey
Date: 13:12:20 09/16/98
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On September 16, 1998 at 11:31:22, William H Rogers wrote: >I think that you are missing something. Assuming that you are capturing a piece >located at KP4.. the only captures that your program should be looking at is the >pieces that can attack KP4..I can see no way that in any situation that there >can be more than 5 or so pieces attacking the same square, so you only search >captures on that square until there are no more possible captures. >The Alpha-Beta routine should eliminate some before the list grows to big. > >BILL ROGERS >WROGERS824@AOL.COM Looking at captures only on one square seems rather limited to me. I wonder how many programs use this approach? John Coffey
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