Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 08:34:20 10/04/98
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On October 04, 1998 at 11:21:22, Ed Schröder wrote: > >Through the years I have experimented with this many times and in many >forms. My conclusion is you gain lots of speed increase resulting in deeper >search. Sofar so good but I also noticed the positional understanding drops >considerable so in the end I dropped the idea. Similar experiences? No, rather the opposite -- for "DarkThought" deeper searches always mean much *improved* positional understanding. But I strongly suspect that there is a close relationship and tradeoff between this kind of pruning and heavy vs. moderate extensions as well as fat vs. lean evaluation functions. The design philosophy of "DarkThought" stresses an approach right in the middle of all the above. =Ernst=
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