I spent about six months writing such a program, about 8 years ago, to learn alpha beta for use in my go program, and I doubt it's very strong. It crushes me, but I'm really weak, maybe 1500. If someone wants to try some games against it I can make the executable available. It uses iterative deepening, partial ply extensions, killer heuristic, piece-square tables, very simple pawn structure and king safety terms, etc.
David > > Out of interest, can you put a number on that? How strong would a > program be, running on a modern fast desktop and using only alpha-beta > and a static evaluation function based on, say, piece-square tables plus > "a little consideration to position"? > > -M- > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
