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Subject: Re: The new version of Junior is significantly better

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 11:38:28 08/02/98

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On July 31, 1998 at 12:26:57, Amir Ban wrote:

>On July 31, 1998 at 09:34:58, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>
>>
>>I believe that Fritz 5 is a full width searcher with an excellent null move
>>algorithm. In fact the manual says it is a full width searcher.
>>--
>>Komputer Korner
>
>Don't understand your meaning. It certainly uses some extensions, and it uses at
>least null-move for forward pruning, so it does both extensions and pruning like
>the rest of us. So what does the "full width" bit mean ?
>
>Amir

The full width means that it does consider every move and doesn't prune these
out at an early ply. AS you know every selective searcher does full width to
some minimum ply depth, but full width searchers will still calculate every PV
at a deep ply level. BTW, what would you classify Junior as?
--
Komputer Korner



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