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Subject: Re: latest Arasan test suite

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 11:41:14 05/16/03

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On May 16, 2003 at 12:22:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>
>I guess that you say that every position should be solved after a deep search by
>a program that is not totally stupid.

Generally, yes. But a failure to solve something can be due to something besides
stupidity. Aggressive use of null move, for example, can make some problems
unsolvable. That doesn't mean you have a bad program: that means you've done a
risky optimization that works most of the time and sometimes causes anomalies.
Most pruning techniques, in fact, have this general property.

--Jon



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