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Subject: Re: correction

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:59:27 10/04/03

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On October 04, 2003 at 18:54:24, Dan Andersson wrote:

> No problem. I have to agree that the name is pretty crummy. And I believe a
>somewhat similar scheme is mentioned in quite old papers.
> That older scheme used a probability limit for cutting off search. They begun
>with P1=1.0 and a limit p. And for each expanded node they multiplied a futility
>factor based on some criterion. And if Pn<p they cut search off.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Yes it is all very very bad science.

I can write down another 100 methods here, but without comparing it with a
normal version of diep, i'll be able to proof of course that every algorithm
works :)




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