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Subject: Re: New Algorithm for "el cheapo Singular Extensions" :)

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 15:03:09 01/27/05

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On January 27, 2005 at 13:12:09, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

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>BTW I don't like the probcut idea for chess. Too often the eval just needs a
>certain amount of search - for example, a manoever Nf3-g1-e2-c3-d5. It looks bad
>until the end. Of course it's a question of statistics - one thing is for sure,
>search is a really strange thing.

Missing deep threats is part and parcel of any forward pruning idea unless you
have solved chess. That's just a given. Otherwise you should reject all such
pruning including null move pruning. Do you really want to that?

>
>Vas



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