Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 13:03:21 11/23/02
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On November 23, 2002 at 12:07:09, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Slight mistake on my part here. I meant to say, "I was using SEE up until >recently, when I did some experiments and decided futility pruning was working >better" > >anthony Are they mutually exclusive? :) I would think futility worked better with SEE, like here on Bruce's site: "SEE allows you to prune "bad" capturing moves very drastically, without many important captures being pruned out erroneously, and it improves move ordering. Another thing you can do is prune out good captures, if they don't seem good enough. If you are down a rook, a capture that wins a pawn is probably not worth trying in quiescent search." http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/quiescent.htm#SEE -S.
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