Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 08:02:25 01/06/03
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On January 06, 2003 at 10:43:15, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 06, 2003 at 08:52:17, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>Goliath might be using too aggressive forward pruning methods. > >Perhas, but Rf7 is not a good move. > >>Nevertheless, its >>NPS speed is impressive. > >He could be counting nodes in strange ways, probably doesn't use SEE, no check >evader, maybe no incheck() just a fail high at the next ply, counting pseudo >illegal moves, small and fast eval. > >Hard to say, but if he needs 3 times as many nodes to solve problems, then he >had better go 3 times as fast too :) > >Personally I prefer the lower branch factor, exponential speed up is a good >investment I think. > What is Goliath's branching factor? (it can be an indicative of the pruning aggressiveness) >It's not the horse power that matters, it's the power to weight ratio that's >important :) > >-S.
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