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Subject: Re: Newbie Chess programmer help please ?

Author: Geoff

Date: 08:11:57 04/18/03

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On April 18, 2003 at 11:01:47, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Geoff,
>
>It looks OK but I suspect that you're not doing any beta cutoffs as the ratio of
>number of node at each ply is ~20:1
>
>Just a thought,
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Maughan

Hi Steve

Thanks for the reply. Yep, you are correct no beta cutoffs. I was starting off
with my program as simple as possible so I could follow it ! Now I have stopped
it crashing and got the right numbers I can change the negamax to alpha beta
with cutoffs

      Geoff







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