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Subject: Re: How to detect combinations?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:44:38 08/03/01

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On August 03, 2001 at 14:33:07, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>On August 03, 2001 at 13:01:44, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Do you als use what Dr. Heinz calls "razoring at (pre-)frontier nodes"?
>>>I implemented something similar in my program and it works fine. You get a
>>>considerable gain in speed (sometimes with factor 2 or more) with nearly no
>>>loss of quality.
>>
>>Really? How about normal futility pruning? Does it help your engine? (it did not
>>help mine, so I did not try the extended versions yet).
>
>What I did I my own program is *similar*, but not identical to futility
>pruning. But the idea is the same. It should help.

God, I wish I had futility pruning in my stock purchases!



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