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Subject: Re: Quiescent Pruning.

Author: Pat King

Date: 13:08:02 10/07/03

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On October 07, 2003 at 13:27:30, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 07, 2003 at 13:08:28, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>I'm working on incremental attack
>>tables right now so that I don't have to mess with it.
>
>Be sure that you can really benefit from the overhead involved, because when you
>go incremental, you have that overhead no matter what. If you do things on the
>fly, you save work in cases where you don't need it. I know several people
>prefer to do things on the fly, but I don't know of anyone that has tried both
>ways and uses the incremental approach, but I certainly don't know what everyone
>does.
>

The only thing I do on the fly is the raw material score. I once figured that
this made sense to something like 8 ply (I've got a slow engine on a slow
machine). Almost anything more complex doesn't justify an incremental approach
IMHO (and I only say "almost" because I hate stating absolutes).

Pat



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