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Subject: Re: History based pruning question

Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso

Date: 12:27:51 08/26/05

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>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.

So, you are saying history based pruning is not a safe thing to do?
Or are you saying I should use tipical history values instead of counters?

Alvaro



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