Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:27:17 10/25/99
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On October 25, 1999 at 12:39:01, Jeff Kenton wrote: > >I'm beginning to write a checkers playing program (just for the hell of it). > >Given that checkers has fewer choices at any move but tends to require deeper >look ahead, which of the programming look ahead strategies do you consider to be >most suitable? > >Also, for those who actually understand checkers well (I don't), what positional >factors are most important for evaluating a position. For checkers, normal alpha/beta, but with a good capture/recapture extension should work well. Because captures are forced, when I did a checker program back in the early 80's I simply didn't count captures as plies since they are forced. The evaluation has to consider mobility, which is all-important, but there are other subtle things that have chess similarities... vacating your back rank is not good unless you have a clear reason to do so... etc...
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