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Subject: Re: Even More Adaptive Null Move Pruning ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:22:30 09/25/00

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On September 25, 2000 at 13:53:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 25, 2000 at 13:47:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>The "6" is pretty arbitrary.  I ran a lot of tests before choosing this
>>number.  Ernst found the same number totally independently of me, although I
>>think we did use some "common tests" (ie WAC, etc) without knowing what the
>>other was doing.
>
>Would it be acceptable to use R=4 with an even larger 'depth remaning'
>threshold? Did you ever run tests with this configuration?
>
>--
>GCP


I tried it, but was never totally happy with it.  I have also played with
a R value that varies from 2-3 continuously, rather than using the two
discrete values I use at present.  No real opinion on that yet, but I am
going to fiddle with it some more...



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