Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:31:37 02/08/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 13:22:29, Pete R. wrote: >Multiple execution threads?? One thing that always strikes me is how easy it is >to find forcing lines by using this feature, and via short searches one can find >lines in a short time, based on the program's analysis, that are impossible for >the program to find in a reasonable time from the root position. In other words >the only human intervention is to note how big the difference is between the >preferred move and the next best moves, and prune lines accordingly. In this >way the major candidates are obvious and forcing and semi-forcing lines are >trivially easy to follow. Couldn't this be automated?? In theory alpha-beta >does this, right? But the reality is that programs tend to suck at finding deep >forcing and nearly-forced lines, and it would take a dozen hours to get to a >deep enough ply to find what you can find in a minute of noodling around with >this feature. This can, and has, been automated. alpha-beta doesn't do this by default, though. Dave
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