Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:26:31 06/28/03
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On June 28, 2003 at 11:20:21, Frederic Louguet wrote: >I read an interesting paper from Albert Xin Jiang and Michael Buro about >Multi-ProbCut and its implementation in Crafty. I have always been very >skeptical about this pruning technique (for chess) but the paper is rather >optimistic. However, the data presented does not seem very convincing from a >statistical point of view (too few games, not enough opponents). So could Robert >Hyatt tell us a little more about the effectiveness of this technique ? Does it >_really_ work ? Inconclusive is about all I can say. It is _way_ fast in some wild tactical positions, as it should be. But in head-to-head play against crafty without it, the results are inconclusive so far. I'm still looking at it from time to time when I have a spare block of time here and there..
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