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Subject: Re: Is there any chess program which doesn't use minimax algorithm?

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 15:00:34 04/28/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 16:48:02, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>On April 28, 2005 at 15:15:37, Kevin K wrote:
>
>>My question is is there any program which doesn't TOTALLY use minimax?
>
>Symbolic uses a cognitive search instead of a traditional alpha/beta tree
>search.
>
>http://www.geocities.com/chessnotation/
>
>Steven Edwards regularly publishes Status Reports here about the progress he
>makes.

Symbolic _does_ use alpha beta.
As far as I understand, the 'cognitive' part comes is deciding which moves to
search. Those moves are then searched using alpha-beta.



Pallav



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