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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