Programming Tricks And Tips

PSU CS410/510GAMES Lecture 8
July 18, 2000

• Review and amplification
  • value of a position
  • alpha-beta pruning
  • transposition table
• Some programming tricks
  • clever hashing
  • do/undo
  • incremental valuing
  • incremental hashing
  • move generation and ordering
  • valuing (normalizing, true v. approx.)