Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 14:42:49 01/05/01
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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? The overhead to generate all moves at each node, and make/unmake/probe them all is too great in most highly optimized chessprograms as compared to the benefits. Of course each program is different, so you need to experiment. -- GCP
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