Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 07:49:00 11/27/02
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On November 27, 2002 at 10:01:02, David Rasmussen wrote: >Some time ago, along the lines of these thoughts, I proposed "negative >extensions". That is, if you can somehow classify a move as "probably not >interesting", you can "extend" the depth by -1 or -0.75 or whatever seems >reasonable. Exactly as you do with normal extensions. The good thing about this >is that nothing gets pruned for good, everything will eventually get searched >with iterative deepening, but you search what you think is interesting first. Isn't this just razoring? IIRC Beowulf is using this instead of futility pruning ... Richard
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