Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:16:31 06/06/03
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On June 06, 2003 at 07:38:56, Uri Blass wrote: >I did not know that botvinik talked about it. Botwinnik's book PIONEER is very concrete in fact it has positions, search trees and explanation. we should try to scan that book and make it public on the net for the programmers. might be a good idea ! there is much said about botwinnik. most stuff comes from people who never read the book. >I read some things that botvinik said but it sounds to me too general to use >them for a chess program. >He never gave exact definition how to do things. IMO the book is precise enough. >I am surprised if botvinik's ideas helped you because the ideas that you talk >about seem to me natural to think about them without botvinik. :-)) >There are also other trivial ideas that are not implemented in most chess >programs(for example the fact that programs has no knowledge about the second >best move cause to absurd decisions by programs when they can use time for their >move inspite of the fact that it is obvious that there is only one legal move to >prevent mate). > >For me the main problem is to implement things without bugs and not to think >about them and extending plans or calculating the exact value of the second best >move at small depthes to decide about better time management are 2 ideas that >were never implemented until today in movei because I decided that there are >more important or more interesting things to work about them. > >Uri IMO you should open your horizont for ideas uri. since many chess programs have no idea about PLANNING in chess, you can kill them if YOUR chess program can do so.
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