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Subject: Re: When to stop searching captures?

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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