Author: William H Rogers
Date: 10:09:01 04/14/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 20:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 > > >You are talking about "forward pruning" which is full of danger. Your >eval likely doesn't understand deep tactics, yet you will be letting it >dictate which moves you search looking for tactics and which you don't. > >It is _very_ difficult to do this and not cause huge search problems... I thank you all for the input. It is just that I have never seen my program select a move that didn't have a positive score as it's first choice and or final selection, But..... It was nice to get good advice before I commit to changes. Thanks again Bill
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