Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:51:51 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 08:06:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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? > No idea as I have never asked them. I don't see why they would not have done this if they were doing it in hardware already.. >best regards, >vincent
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