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Subject: Re: Chess programs and brute force

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 12:38:00 03/11/99

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On March 10, 1999 at 19:09:38, John Coffey wrote:

>
>>>Chessmaster personalities can be configured to use a brute force search.
>
>What is the definition of "brute force" here?   To me all computers
>seem like "brute force!"  :-)
>
>John Coffey

Here it means: full-width search plus (maybe) quiescence search, without
extensions and without pruning.



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