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Subject: Re: Crafty is SLOW!!!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:19:05 09/13/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 15:17:03, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 11, 2003 at 21:43:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>The only forward pruning I am using is
>>null-move.  (I assume you are not comparing junior in this mix since junior
>>has a different meaning for "ply" than the rest of us).
>
>You no longer use SEE or futility pruning in the quiescent search?
>
>--
>GCP


I use both.  But that is hardly forward pruning.  The q-search that looks at
_all_ captures is guilty of forward pruning in that context, since the search
is forward-pruning away everything but captures...



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