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Subject: Re: Formal Defenition of a "Knowledge-Based" Program

Author: James Robertson

Date: 10:50:29 05/07/99

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On May 07, 1999 at 09:01:26, Steve Maughan wrote:

>I like the defenition used by Chris Whittington.  He says that a knowedege bases
>program is one that uses incremental move generation.
>
>Do we know which programs have incremental move generation?

I would wager every commercial program does.

>
>Regrards
>
>Steve Maughan
>
>PS What I mean my incremental move generation is that by moving a piece from A
>to B some moves are added to the move stack and others are removed.  The
>alternative is to create the move stack at each node.

This does not make sense. I understand adding moves to the move stack (every
program must do this, and there is no alternative), but removing moves will
destroy the search.

James



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