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Subject: Re: Why? WHY?!

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 03:31:42 01/06/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 23:42:45, Robert Hyatt 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?
>>
>>I can't think of any more ideas right now...
>
>
>I tried it a long while back when Jonathan Schaeffer suggested it to me.  I
>didn't have any success with it.  It made the tree about 10% smaller, but the
>extra work offset that almost exactly.  As a result, it was no real improvement

If it balances out at relatively shallow searches, wouldn't it mean that it
would actually be better in deep searches? I mean, that overhead is constant,
but 10% of the nodes is a scalable improvement. Also, did you remember not to do
it at th last 2-4 plies? (of course you did, just asking)

>and I decided to stick with KISS...

Don't we all ;)

Oh, BTW, what is KISS?



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