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Subject: Re: Futility Pruning off?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 09:45:59 01/21/04

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On January 21, 2004 at 05:02:37, Robert Allgeuer wrote:

>Do I conclude correctly that futilty pruning is off? Is there a specific reason
>for that?

Possibly that it simply doesn't work very well?  The idea has always looked
dubious to me, and my own experiments confirm this.  There is a speedup, but
it is not worth the risks.

As always, the results may vary from engine to engine, but I suppose Bob has
found that it doesn't work for him either.

Tord



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