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Subject: Re: Extended futility prunning not working

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:46:23 08/03/04

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On August 04, 2004 at 02:11:44, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>for every pruning you make I suggest to implement a pruning test.
>In Test mode do the following:
>
>1. Remember if you are pruning
>2. Don´t do the pruning, but search normally
>3. Returning from the search find out if the pruing would have been correct.
>4. If not: Count for statistic, build a maximal error value, print out fen of
>the current position
>5. Look at the fens, find out if you have to implement additional rules to
>exclude wrong prunings.
>
>For extendet futility you have to make sure, that you are nearly not making any
>error, because the error would possible not be fixed at the next search depth.
>
>Greetings Volker
>
>P.S. I do not use futility so far, because it depends much on the engine. Thus
>if you´ll plan to improve your engine much futility can IMHO make improvements
>harder to test.
>
>Greetings Volker

I do not understand why do you think it will make improvements harder to test.

Uri



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