Re: Using partial plys

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many Faces uses best first search without depth limitation for
life and death searching.  (well, actually there is a depth
limitation as I implemented it, but lines can end at any depth,
and most lines don't reach the depth limitation.)

It's not proof number search, since PNS only uses the number of
reasonable move at each node to guide the search.  My move generator 
has much better move confidence values that it uses instead.

David

At 10:04 AM 3/19/99 +0000, P.J.Leonard wrote:
>Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>> a human is not busy with 'depths'. A human sees a move and a plan, and
>> searches till he thinks that is needed to search. This is called bestfirst
>> search without any depth limitation. However so far no one managed to
>> implement that... :)
>
>(IMHO) The proof number search is exactly this and has been implemented.
>
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