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Subject: Re: To Ed Schröder (again)

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 13:27:59 01/30/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 13:27:47, David Rasmussen wrote:

Hi,


>How come you don't use any null window technique (NegaScout, PVS etc.) instead
>of just plain alpha-beta (with aspiration, but that can be used with the other
>techniques too)?

I am using close to null window aspiration search. I found that other search
types weren't superior at all, that they gave only a few percent extra. Since
all of them gave some strange side effects to my static (pruning) stuff I
dropped it alternative search types.


>I asked this before, but you never answered.

I probably missed it, I don't read CCC on a frequent basis.

My best,

Ed


>/David



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