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Subject: Re: Checks in the Qsearch

Author: Omid David

Date: 19:29:44 07/06/02

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On July 06, 2002 at 10:20:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 06, 2002 at 01:07:36, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>
>>Okay, but so what?
>>
>>>
>>>So perhaps the idea of "forward pruning" is foreign to us as well...
>>
>>I see no logical difference between deciding which moves are interesting and
>>worth looking at and deciding which moves are not interesting and not worth
>>looking at. It looks to me like 2 sides of the same coin, so your speculation
>>that "perhaps the idea of "forward pruning" is foreign to us as well..." does
>>not seem to be of any consequence.
>>
>
>However, that has been _the point_ of this entire thread:  Is DB's search
>inferior because it does lots of extensions, but no forward pruning.  I
>simply said "no, the two can be 100% equivalent".

Just a quick point: The last winner of WCCC which *didn't* use forward pruning
was Deep Thought in 1989. Since then, forward pruning programs won all WCCC
championships...



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