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Subject: Re: Conspiracy Numbers Search

Author: Theo van der Storm

Date: 13:13:08 11/11/05

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On November 11, 2005 at 15:41:24, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>On November 11, 2005 at 15:30:59, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On November 11, 2005 at 15:12:14, Maurizio Monge wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>i've found that there was a lot of research about conspiracy numbers search
>>>algorithms.
>>>Does anybody know if someone tried to make a chess program with it?
>>>AFAIK, it is not used on any modern chess program that i know of (like fruit,
>>>crafty, etc), does this means that the idea cannot be succesfully applied to
>>>chess?
>>
>>It is used to prove mates and things like that.
>>GCP did use it in a pervious version of Sjeng.
>
>
>I think what GCP used was proof-number search.
>IIRC, Ulf Lorenz of Paderborn University used conspiracy numbers search in his
>chess engine (on a parallel computer with many processors).
>
>Martin

And Maarten van der Meulen was one of the first to use it.
m1.0.

Theo



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