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Subject: Re: Several chess programming questions

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:03:13 04/07/00

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On April 07, 2000 at 12:26:11, Ernst A. Heinz 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.
>
>No, Tom -- what you describe is not razoring but standard futility
>pruning at frontier nodes with a remaining search depth of 1 ply.

You're right, I got confused. Sorry.

>
>> I think most people don't like it.
>
>Wrong again.
>Most people do not like razoring. Futility pruning at frontier

Of course, that's what I meant.

-Tom



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