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Subject: Re: PRUNING?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 23:43:41 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 12:21:31, William H Rogers wrote:

>My program generates say 30 possible moves at ply one and half of them return a
>negative score. Would it be likely to prune those moves out of the tree and thus
>speed up the program?
>I must mention that I evaluate each move as it is made.
>Thanks
>Bill

Excuse my ignorance, but how could it possibly make fantastic but sound
sacrifices in such a way? And even if you are not looking for the fantastic
and absurd, just pure strength and hard to beat, that alone is not chess, and
can easily be defeated. Chess needs both the obvious and the non-obvious
  S.Taylor.



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