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Subject: Re: Verified Null-Move Pruning, ICGA 25(3)

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 14:36:17 11/23/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 20:05:17, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 22, 2002 at 19:57:40, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2002 at 17:43:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On November 22, 2002 at 17:29:35, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 22, 2002 at 07:26:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I expect it to do better at longer times too of course, for the reason
>>>>>pointed out in this thread than it becomes more comparable to R=3. R=3 is
>>>>>superior in Deep Sjeng compared to verified R=3, so as verified gets
>>>>>closer to R=3, it will do better, but I don't expect it to do
>>>>>"better than R=3".
>>>>>
>>>>>I have different testing priorities right now because in any case it
>>>>>looks vastly inferior to what I am doing now (not R=3 and not R=2/3).
>>>>
>>>>What are you doing now?
>>>
>>>Ultra-Secret-Commercial-Hyper-Mega-Pruning-Technique XBHY-356
>>>
>>>:)
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>So you're not going to write it up and publish it?
>
>No. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it - it's not really fair
>to Omir as he does publish his stuff.
>
>But I am contemplating publishing another method that will yield both
>smaller tree sizes and more solutions for a fixed depth.
>
>I call it 'disable lazy evaluation'.
>
>From what I've read here, the ICCA would accept it right away.
>

Well GCP, we are both 20. We have enough time to find many algorithms and
improvements. Why not publish some of them? :-)

Just kidding; if you are going commercial soon, then I don't recommend you to
publish your   "Ultra-Secret-Commercial-Hyper-Mega-Pruning-Technique XBHY-356"
idea. Just the "Infra-Public-Freeware-Hypo-Mini-BruteForce-Technique AAAA-000"?


>--
>GCP



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