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Subject: Re: It's in the news – is it ever in the news!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:06:51 10/08/02

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On October 07, 2002 at 21:46:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 07, 2002 at 10:05:27, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 2002 at 21:21:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Lack of null-move is not a known deficiency.  I can name a pretty successful
>>>program
>>>or two (commercial) that didn't rely on it...
>>
>>They use other ways of forward pruning that replace nullmove. The DB
>>team did nothing of that sorts.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>Based on what?  we _know_ they did something.  The logs clearly prove that
>beyond
>any doubt.   And they have mentioned some sort of forward pruing in their
>discussions of
>the hardware chips...

Yes they searched 12 ply nominal, and now and then extensions (singular
and other stuff like i do too) and they used 'no progress' pruning in
hardware.

I am amazed that eugene says explicitly it is in the hardware done.
didn't they use it in software?

best regards,
vincent




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