Author: Tony Werten
Date: 12:39:08 12/28/02
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On December 28, 2002 at 14:17:17, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >[snip] > >> >>the problem of most 'reductions' is the hard fact that you lose a full ply >>near the root. > >That's why reductions are not done in every node, but under certain conditions. >The quality then depends on those conditions, of course. Therefore, reductions >are not bad per se. This was about recursive reductions as FHR. What happens is at a ply you decide to reduce depth, but 2 ply later, the conditions are still met and you reduce another ply etc. I dumped them because they cost to much tactical strenght. Ed's nonrecursive way seem to give me a 5% node reduction. Not bad for 2 minutes work. Tony > >Alessandro
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