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Subject: Re: Cutoff Statistics

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?
>>
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>>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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