Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:59:23 01/21/04
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On January 21, 2004 at 12:45:59, Tord Romstad wrote: >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 Correct. I didn't like it myself after lots of testing. It looks good on test sets, but you don't win games by doing well on test sets.
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