Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:53:25 04/11/04
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On April 10, 2004 at 07:17:24, Uri Blass wrote: In diep i do non recursive search. It is not a free program. Nor its source codes is free (i guess that's what you mean with a free program). Though i do not doubt that you succeed in making a non recursive search, a recursive search is much simpler to make. I do not see the real speedwin of it though other than that i never call recursive procedure calls where you do currently. Other overhead comes back instead though. Saying recursive search is a mistake is not a correct statement IMHO. The fact that you have no clue how to do it efficiently already tells us how non trivial it is. >Recursive search is basically a mistake because it means that the computer >remember every information twice(it remember beta and later alpha as minus beta >and it is a waste of memory). > >people claimed in the past that it is more simple to do a recursive search but I >believe that everything is simple after you understand it so it should not be a >problem. > >I think that the only reason that people think that recursive search is simpler >is that they are used to recursive search and not to non recursive search. > >My question is if there is a single free program that use alphabeta without >recursive search(it does not have to be a chess program and can be a program in >every thinking game). > >I try to figure out how basic alphabeta without recursive search should be done >It will be productive if somebody can give a code for non recursive search that >allow extensions and null move pruning. > >Uri
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