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Subject: Re: This is getting boring

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 11:18:47 01/30/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 10:12:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>Why are you blindly assuming that their effective branching factor
>is 40, just because that is the average number of legal chess
>moves? You should know better. And I know you do.
>
>They used PVS. Aspiration windows. Hashtables for the first TWELVE
>plies. Even futility pruning.
>

Futility pruning? I don't think so. Hsu hated futility pruning, even in
quiescence.

/David



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