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Subject: Re: Question about checkers for chess programmers

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 13:32:54 10/25/99

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On October 25, 1999 at 16:31:11, Frank Schneider wrote:

>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.
>Try to get some literature, for example
>"One Jump Ahead" by Jonathan Schaeffer
>Springer, ISBN 0-387-94930-5
>
>It is not very technical but I enjoyed reading it a lot.
>
>Frank
Sorry, didn't see that other messages already mentioned that book....




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