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Subject: Re: Futility Pruning

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 13:31:19 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 15:09:56, anonymous wrote:

>Could someone please enlighten me as to the purpose and meaning of 'futility
>pruning' specifically as implemented in the Fritz family of engines? Also, is it
>better to have this option selected or not in playing blitz games against other
>computers ? Thanks !

Futility pruning is a pruning technique, created by the developer Dr. Ernst A.
Heinz of the program DarkThought. Normally a chess program should play better in
each time control with this pruning extension. But it could be in rare cases
that a better move (better part of a tree) will be pruned.

have a nice day
Andreas



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