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Cameron Browne (Camb)
| | Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 10:47 pm: | |
The Sample.zip project shows how to implement random move selection in DLL_Search(). To achieve a better result do I have to implement a full alpha-beta search (or whatever) in my own DLL_Search function, or is there some way of getting Zillions to use its own search engine while a DLL is loaded?
Thanks,
Cameron |
Jeff Mallett (Jeffm)
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 1:00 am: | |
It would be cool to piggyback on Zillions search engine and just write an evaluation function, but the way it is now, if you replace the search engine with your own you have to supply the search part. |
Cameron Browne (Camb)
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 1:18 am: | |
Thanks for the explanation Jeff.
Is it possible to get hold of some working search code that I can just drop in to DLL_Search rather than write the whole thing myself from scratch? All I really want the DLL for is to generate move lists for a complex 3Dish game. |
Jeff Mallett (Jeffm)
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 2:27 pm: | |
Ah, generating moves is what your after -- that wasn't even a feature of plug-in DLLs until version 1.2. (The original idea of the DLLs was to replace the search engine.) If you want code for a search engine, you should be able to find source code available on the web. For example, you can find code to chess engines here. If that's too much work, then my only suggestion is wait until such time as DLL_Search becomes an optional routine. |
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