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Subject: Re: Ah, the "find this winning move syndrome"

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 03:40:01 11/30/04

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On November 29, 2004 at 11:50:20, martin fierz wrote:

>On November 29, 2004 at 08:16:35, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>You know, I've seen enough test positions that if someone shows me one I can do
>>just about the same thing.  If someone shows me a position and says "find the
>>winning move", all I have to do is look at reasonable checks, captures, and
>>moves to threatened squares :)  But in a real game, when you don't know if there
>>is a winning move, things are a lot harder.
>
>right. what daniel really should have said is that the correct move was his
>candidate move instantly. but to really calculate the lines, you need some time
>as a human...
>
>cheers
>  martin

It's called non-check pruning -- a very selective search algorithm, performs
quite well on some testsuites.

Vas

>
>>
>>This just gave me an idea.  I should have a "test suite" mode, where it only
>>looks at idiot moves in the root position :)
>>
>>anthony



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