Author: Roland Pfister
Date: 23:04:57 12/18/97
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On December 18, 1997 at 17:22:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 18, 1997 at 15:13:18, Willie Wood wrote: > >> >>On December 18, 1997 at 07:02:57, Roland Pfister wrote: >> ..... >>> >>>Has anyone else statistics about cutoffs or will produce them? >> >> >>That's pretty interesting. Can you tell me what's the difference >>bewteen killer 1 and 2, and do you allow captures in the killers? Killer 1 is the primary killer, if there is a new killer1 , old killer1 becomes new killer2 and old killer2 is thrown away. I don't use captures as killers but see my idea below... >> >>WW > >Generally you wouldn't, because you try captures *before* the killer >moves. If there were no good captures before killers, it is unlikely >a killer would be a capture... Also, you'd wind up with wasted killer >entries because every capture that causes a cutoff would be entered in >the killer list, but would be tried *before* the killer move next time >anyway... I played around with the idea of adding "losing" (according to Swap) captures that cause a cutoff, to the killerlist, but I did not try it.
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