Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:26:50 03/19/03
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On March 19, 2003 at 16:56:25, Mike Siler wrote: >Can anyone tell me just how tactically risky it is to add fulity pruning and >razoring to a program? I've read that both can cause programs to miss tactical >possibilities at leaf nodes (which seems to make sense) yet it seems like most >programs I download use one or both. > >Michael Siler I used to use it a couple of years back. I chose to drop them because of some side-effects I saw in games, dealing with tactical issues. They may do find on test sets, but in longer games, they seemed to produce an occasional error or two too many. You should always test for yourself however, as every program is different and will respond differently to the same ideas.
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