Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:27:05 08/21/03
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On August 21, 2003 at 17:21:06, Uri Blass wrote: >>If you had a pruning rule that gained 50 elo in all games but made blunder moves >>every time there was a quadrople pawn on the board, would you do the pruning? > >I believe that if I have that pruning rule then I can easily change it not to >make the blunder without significant difference in strength. But for the sake of argument, suppose you couldn't. Which is more important to you? >pruning rule basically say to search to reduced depth. >I see no reason not to search at all if you are not sure. > >Junior decides not to search at all. No Junior thinks one side can't win and adjusts bounds, it has nothing to do with reducing depth. >The gain from deciding that bishop cannot win could still be almost the same >after modifying this rule to do verification search to depth d/4 when the >remaining depth is d and only after this search to decide that a bishop cannot >win. In which case the mate is going to need 40 plies, so you'll miss it anyway. >It is even possible that in that case Junior may be 1 elo stronger Or 1 elo weaker :) -S. >Uri
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