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Subject: Re: Anmon question ! Is anmon using alpha-beta ?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 14:44:39 08/16/99

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On August 16, 1999 at 16:37:09, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>Uli said this it could be anmon uses the
>MTD ("best first") algorithm .
>he says this comes out of the Cilkchess-corner (Aske Plaat); also other
>programs (maybe SOS use it).
>
>Can somebody explain this to us non-programmers. would be interesting
>for me because i am using programs for mail-chess and the better
>i do understand the programs methods the better i can use them in for
>analysing ...

Imagine aspiration PVS/Negascout, but with a really, really tiny aspiration
window. :-)  Needless to say, your hash table code must be rock-solid for this
to work!

Dave



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