Author: Dan Homan
Date: 06:00:34 04/07/00
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On April 07, 2000 at 04:14:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >> 3) does "razoring" mean pruning in general (or even alfa-beta method)? > >No, razoring is when you do futility pruning at the last ply of your full-width >search. I think most people don't like it. I tried it and all my test suite >scores went way down, even when the futility threshold was pretty conservative. >It just causes to the search to miss too much... I thought that was called "extended futility pruning" and razoring was simply reducing the depth of the search by 1 ply if nothing interesting was going on near the leaf and the move made does not bring the score near alpha. - Dan > >-Tom
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