Author: Cristian Zaslo
Date: 02:10:15 05/05/99
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On May 04, 1999 at 20:51:00, James Robertson wrote: >Whenever my program makes an extension, say, at depth = 4 it finds it is in >check, it will not do any futility pruning/razoring for the rest of the branch. >I recently read that some programs will do pruning/razoring even if there is an >extension, unless it is at the current ply. Is this a better way to do things? >It seems like it would nullify some of the effects of extending, but it could >also save a tremendous amount of time too. What should I do? > >Thanks for any help, >James I do razoring at ply=1 (if there are any reasons for it) starting the Q-Search 1 ply earlier, but then, only on this ply I generate checking moves alongside the interesting captures. It fixed a lot of problems and didn’t cost too many extra nodes. Cristian
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