Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 17:17:44 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 04:58:25, Sune Fischer wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 02:13:53, Johan de Koning wrote: > >>But as Theron pointed out some years ago, one should avoid *any* >>probe inside a search. > >Do you recall the argument? Blindly probing after captures results in lots of redundant probes. Most positions are way off balance (outside [alpha,beta]) and are interesting only if a 1 or 3 ply tactic exists. About 2 years ago Chritophe posted he was working/planning on a set of rules to decide for each material config whether to probe or not (depending on local depth I guess). Then he went on doing Palm stuff and other, more important, improvements. The idea is sound I think, because 1 probe that misses the EGDB cache is already awfully expensive. But on the other hand, with 6 men, building a set of rules (more imprtantly exceptions) will be quite a daunting task. ... Johan
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