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

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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