Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:12:45 04/12/04
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On April 12, 2004 at 08:32:49, Steve Maughan wrote: >Uri, > >>>>faillowcount>128*failhighcount > > >>If there is a little experience with the move then it seems to me dangerous to >>prune it > >I agree. > >But the formula above does not capture this point i.e. if you have 2 fail low >and no fail highs you would reduce the depth. same in the case of number of fail high relative to number of nodes. Note that I said that it is only one of the conditions. Another condition is to have enough fail low in a row. number of faillow in a row that is needed is not constant but in all cases it is at least 4 so 2 fail low and no fail high will never reduce the depth in movei. Uri
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