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Subject: Re: Understanding chess software

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 05:53:29 12/02/99

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On December 02, 1999 at 08:29:39, Joe Pechie wrote:

>Hi
>I enjoy playing chess progams against each other. I can't come close to beating
>them myself. I am a little curious about how chess progams work. I just got
>Junior 5.0 and have only had time to play it against cm6000 a couple of times.
>Games were 1 hr for all moves. When I look at the number of nodes searched by
>the programs, you would think Junior would kill cm6000 yet they split the games.
>Just wondering what goes on behind the seens. Even though cm6000 does not search
>nearly as many nodes, does it do better things with the data?
>Just curious
>Joe

You will get a lot of responses to this.  Take a look at the
CCC resource center, links.  You will find links to essays on
how chess programs work and also code (Crafty is a very easy to
understand program and is the strongest of the source avaliable).

It may take some time, so have fun and ask questions here.

Both Junior and Chessmaster are strong programs.  Nodes is only one
measure of performance.

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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