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Subject: Re: thx for the interesting comment (nt)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:19:39 04/23/01

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On April 23, 2001 at 11:33:52, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On April 23, 2001 at 11:03:32, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>It is easy to check out where it goes wrong, by comparing the values with and
>without FP. Values are in my case mostly different when the capture is checking.
>Also in the endgame it is risky, when for instance a pawncapture brings the king
>out of the "square of the pawn".
>
>In my case it does not matter much, because you will get a cut anyway the next
>ply. It saves a call to ab/evaluate, that's about it. I can't see how that gives
>enourmous gains. And it doesn't in my case.
>
>
>Bas.

What it does is cut the total q-search nodes by 1/2 at least.  That is a pretty
significant savings...



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