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Subject: Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:19:44 11/19/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 09:10:12, Bert van den Akker wrote:

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>I think a brute force program with only null move pruning added is at least
>100 elo points stronger the pure brute force program because it will
>search 1 or 2 ply deeper.

There are lines that you are going  to see deeper without null move because null
move pruning prunes them so you cannot use the difference in plies in order to
calculate the difference in rating.

The only way to know is by playing games.

Uri

• Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? Bert van den Akker 12:44:09 11/19/00
  • Re: How many commercial programs use the Brute Force instead of selective ? Bert van den Akker 14:47:51 11/19/00

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