How DarkThought Plays Chess
(Preprint of an article by Ernst A. Heinz in: ICCA Journal, Vol. 20(3), pp. 166-176, Sept. 1997)
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Abstract
Introduction
Implementation History
Bitboard Engine
Bitboard Infrastructure
Rotated Bitboards
Search Engine
Node Expansion
Extension Heuristics
Search Parameterization
Evaluation Engine
Programmable Evaluation Function
Evaluation Machines
Future Work
Appendix -- Performance on Test Suites as of July 31, 1997
Created by
Ernst A. Heinz
, Thu Dec 16 23:28:11 EST 1999