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Subject: Re: Why? WHY?!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:35:01 01/05/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 15:06:44, Carlos del Cacho wrote:

>On January 05, 2001 at 14:44:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2001 at 14:41:51, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>I was wondering why some of the clever ideas I've been reading about, aren't
>>>used in the programs I know of.
>>>
>>>ETC, Enhanced Transposition Cutoff, seems like a very good idea and have been
>>>tested to perform well in practice. Why isn't it used?
>>
>>Where is an article on this technique that I might read?
>>
>>I've never heard of it.
>
>You can find it mentioned in this article by Jonathan Schaeffer:
>http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/Papers/Papers/TR94-19.ps
>
>I think Phalanx uses this technique.

Dave Gomboc was a student there.  I wonder what sort of chess programming
mischief he is up to.  I remember he was working on some kind of frameworks.

Have not seen any Gomboc posts in a while.  I wonder where Dave has gotten to.



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