Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:00:01 04/09/99
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On April 09, 1999 at 23:36:46, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On April 09, 1999 at 12:11:14, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >>>Michael Buro's ProbCut works really well for Othello. I don't know if anyone's >>>had any success using it in chess though (instead of null-move). >>> >>I'm not sure what ProbCut is - could you elaborate? > >It's an alternative forward-pruning technique. You would do best to read the >actual paper. > >Buro, M. (1995). ProbCut: An Effective Selective Extension of the - Algorithm. >ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 71-76. (A) "-" should have been "alpha-beta"... the figurine characters didn't paste properly, and I didn't notice at first. >I couldn't find an online copy at >http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/mic/publications.html (where his online >publications generally are. There is a newer work on multi-probcut though, so >reading that should suffice!) > >Dave Gomboc Dave Gomboc
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