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Subject: Re: Question for Hyatt about Alpha/Beta

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 12:08:18 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 14:35:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I can think of a dozen exceptions.  Rook at e1, bishop at f1, but the bishop at
>f1 can't move as my pawn at g2 is attacked twice by my opponent.  Etc...  I
>simply hope the search is up to sorting those kinds of details out, where years
>ago I had to evaluate them due to the shallow search depths we were getting.

I suppose that is the true reason for our apparent disagreement -- Unlike you, I
still get these shallow search depths.  My engine is probably reaches depths
comparable to those you got ten or fifteen years ago.

In addition, we have quite different goals:  You want to have an engine which
"scales upwards" and is able to take advantage of very fast multiprocessor
machines.  I am more interested in developing an engine which "scales downwards"
and plays reasonably well even on slow handheld devices.

Tord



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