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Re:Strongest chess player, ever by arek2 on Sunday June 01, 2014 @06:43AM (#7828750)
I have not seen the Stockfish source, but my impression is that computer chess was going round in circles in the last 10 years, and it's still good old alpha-beta search with more refined heuristics.

The biggest value in studying computer chess for a programmer is IMO in seeing all the different performance optimization tricks.

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Re:Strongest chess player, ever by halfcat on Monday June 02, 2014 @11:51PM (#7838049)
Performance optimization, while it is not neglected, is not what separates chess engines. You don't win an exponential race with linear advantages.
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