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Subject: BRUTE FORCE - Alternatives?

Author: John Wentworth2

Date: 09:46:10 03/12/03


Today, I put a searching mechanism into place which right now is a brute force
approach. Totally amazed me to see how fast the tree grows and the length of
time it takes to get to the next ply.

What I would like to know from the experts here are what are the alternatives?

How can I limit the number of branches since there doesn't seem to be a way for
a program to know which moves are ridiculous without actually "seeing" the
outcome.

Should I do a brute force approach for first couple of nodes then based on that
do something else?

Any help appreciated,thanks.



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