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Subject: Re: Something interesting about Amy

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 00:51:24 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 01:05:13, Dann Corbit wrote:

>It uses NegaScout() rather than NegaMax() like {for instance} Crafty.


Hahaha...Crafty (and every other half-decent chessprogram) uses
Principal Variantion Search, which is essentially identical to
NegaScout.

If it were to use pure NegaMax, you'd see the search depth nearly
halved.

--
GCP



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