Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 03:38:57 02/01/02
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On February 01, 2002 at 00:29:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>No idea if they used futility in the software search, but they definitely >>>used it in the hardware part as per their discussions... >> >>OK, I didn't know that. A newsgroup thread between you and Hsu from around 1990 >>seemed to indicate that he thought that your q-search FP was the reason of many >>tactical mistakes, and that he considered it to be extremely unsound. So I >>assumed it wasn't in DB. But hey, you live and learn. >> >>/David > > >You are correct about the newsgroup discussion. However, it appears that he >later "saw the light". :) > >I was surprised when I found out... but it is logical... :) I got a little worried when I read the post, because I use futility pruning in q-search too, and I was sure that Hsu had done more testing on this than I had. On the other hand, I knew that you must also have done a lot of testing that is at least as valid as Hsu's. When you tell me that he later "saw the light", it makes me even more comfortable in doing it :) /David
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