- make computers play Amazons, Chess, Go, Shogi, and other
board or strategy games
- novel approaches in tree searching, leaf-node evaluation,
and effective resource usage in computer game-playing (based on
sophisticated 64-bit chess program DARKTHOUGHT)
- efficient game-tree search on high-performance computers
- parallelization of alpha-beta and best-first minimax search
(e.g. pb-B*, Dual*, SSS*)
Created by Ernst A. Heinz, Tue Jan 30 14:53:38 EST 2001