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Subject: Re: Question about checkers for chess programmers

Author: Jeff Kenton

Date: 05:08:48 10/27/99

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Thanks -- that was the kind of information I was looking for.

On October 25, 1999 at 16:27:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>
>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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