Author: Omid David
Date: 02:40:11 05/23/02
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>Ernst Heinz's thesis is more recent (1999) and well worth studying. >http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ > >I think nobody does fixed-depth search. Null move, futility and extensions are >very well-known heuristics that shape the search tree so each line is not >searched at a fixed depth. Or maybe you have another definition of what variable >depth is? > >Rémi Yes, Heniz's work on Null-move search is one of the best recent publications. Thats right, in practice nobody uses fixed depth, but unfortunately many academic researchers are still focusing only on fixed depth search. Mainly because comparision of results of different algorithms is easier in fixed depth search. Omid
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