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Subject: Re: To Ed Schröder (again)

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 04:02:08 01/31/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 16:27:59, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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.
>

Exactly what I thought :) Thank you!

>
>>I asked this before, but you never answered.
>
>I probably missed it, I don't read CCC on a frequent basis.
>
>My best,
>
>Ed
>

Thanks, Ed!



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