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Subject: Re: Why? WHY?!

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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