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Subject: Re: Futility Pruning

Author: anonymous

Date: 13:54:01 12/19/02

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>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

Thanks! It's very refreshing to get a clear, simple and understandable answer to
a question from a forum post for a change !



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