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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 secret: search depth?

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 10:52:27 03/23/04

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On March 23, 2004 at 11:44:29, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>>>Junior, however, appears to come at the problem of selective search via
>>>extensions rather than reductions. There are some extremely interesting
>>>discussions about this in the CCC archives. Amir has claimed that the best way
>>>to search selectively is via extensions. To complete the reductions vs
>>>extensions thought from above, an extension strategy will have the profile that
>>>most moves have the same basic search depth, while certain special moves will
>>>have a higher search depth. The profile of a search based on reductions compared
>>>to a search based on extensions will be different.
>>
>>I have to look up those old discussions.  They sound really interesting.
>
>Post some links!!
>
>anthony

BTW if you want I can email you Tord's description of the Gothmog search. (It
was posted here, actually.)

Although I thought you were all for brute force ...

:-)

Vas



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