Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 03:23:15 10/11/05
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On October 10, 2005 at 23:14:53, chandler yergin wrote: >The following are also used by Top Programs: >Negamax Search >Analysis Function >Iterative Deepening >Alpha-Beta Pruning >Principal Variation Search >Aspiration Windows >Transposition Table >Killer Moves >History Heuristic >Quiescence Search >Quiescence Width Extensions >Bitboards >Internal Iterative Deepening >Null Move Heuristic >Futility Pruning >Razoring >Search Extensions >Static Evaluation If you want to ask if all top-programs use all the mechanisms the answer is clearly no if you wanted to ask if all of the mechanisms are used by one or more top-programs the answer is likely yes. Things that are not used by all programs are e.g. Principle Variation Search, Quiescence Width Extensions, Bitboards, Futility Pruning, Razoring and probably more. In the Baron I'm _not_ using Razoring and Futility Pruning. Richard.
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