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From: bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck)
Subject: Re: Map AI (was Seeing your opponent)
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:26:41 GMT
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eplrl@eua.ericsson.se (Roger Larsson) wrote:


>Hi,

>With all these new operating systems out there (OS/2, W95 ...) is it
>really necessary to make this analyze "at game start up"?

>Start a thread to do the analyze during the game - people tend to think
>a lot in this kind of game and will probably start by doing a map analyze...

>By prioritying in what order to analyze you could probably do your first
>movements without full knowledge.

>What do you think about this approach?

>/Roger L
>Standard disclaimer...
This can be done even without multi-threading, by sort of simulating
multi-threading. I think nearly every chess program I've seen in the
last couple of years, uses the player's turn to perform analysis as
well.
Uri

