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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 10 in ECMGCP

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:39:11 12/15/05

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On December 15, 2005 at 11:00:34, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On December 15, 2005 at 10:03:46, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>hm, perhaps your pruning is too safe. It does not prune away the fancy looking
>>but rare tactical flashes in ECMGCP. ;-)
>
>You are probably joking, but in fact I have seriously considered this
>possibility, and experimented with more risky pruning.  Unfortunately this
>reduces the ECMGCP score *and* the performance in real games.  :-(
>
>Tord

I wonder if you tried some more aggresive pruning based on evaluation when the
remaining depth is small.

I believe that this type of pruning may be productive in game but counter
productive in the ECMGCP test suite.

Uri



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