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Subject: Re: PRUNING?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 11:41:08 04/14/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 20:32:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

[snip]
>
>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...


That is why Fathom will be so dangerous ("yeah, right" says all of the old
programmers). It does a type of forward pruning. Whether it will be successful
with this, only time will tell.

KarinsDad :)



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