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Subject: Re: Selective Search vs Pruning Question

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 09:29:24 10/10/02

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Hi,

there are no absolute definitions of those terms.

But usually "more selective" / "less selective" search describes the whole
search tree, while "pruning" means the last couple of plys to the leaf of the
tree.

The effect you will notice will be similar.

Georg


On October 10, 2002 at 02:49:32, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>Chess Genius Classic 7 has a new feature that allows for "normal" "light" or
>"heavy" pruning.  What is the basic difference between selective search and
>pruning?
>
>I know if selective search is set too high winning lines in certain positions
>can be pruned out.  What effects would setting Genius 7 on "heavy pruning" have?
> I was planning on doing some testing with various settings.
>
>Thanks



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