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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