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Subject: Re: History based pruning question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:54:32 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 14:21:34, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Hi,
>some of you compare the number of times a move failed high to the number o times
>the same move failed low in order to decide if a move can be reduced one ply.
>I've tested this and also tested using the actual values of the history table
>(using of course another history table for fail lows).
>I couldn't reach a conclusion though.
>What is your experience on this?
>
>best regards,
>Alvaro


My first thought is that the number of "fail lows" is irrelevant.  What you
really want to avoid is a reduction on a move that might fail high.  Any move
will fail low in some situations, but you want to handle the "typical" case
correctly and not reduce if there is a reasonable chance the reduction will hide
something.



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