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

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 20:41:43 04/28/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 18:00:34, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>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.

Only Symbolic's toolkit uses A/B in the traditional sense.  It is being retained
until the cognitiwe search code is complete.

The most recent progress reports:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/chessnotation/



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