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Subject: Re: Multi Paderborn (German)

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 08:48:13 07/11/99

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On July 09, 1999 at 20:44:36, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On July 09, 1999 at 17:58:03, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>Perhaps someone could post a brief overview of what Multi-cut pruning is?
>>I've never heard of it before...

Sorry, Peter, I have no time to do so at the moment ... :-(

Just send Yngvi Bj"ornsson an email and he will surely forward
a preprint of the paper to you.

>
>  There is a nice paper by M.Buro concerning M-ProbCut pruning (however applied
>to Othello). You may get it online at
>http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/mic/ps/improve.ps.gz
>I get a feeling null move concept is not far from multi-cut...

Multi-ProbCut is *not* related to multi-cut pruning at all.

It is also very different from null-move pruning because it does not
involve any null moves ...

ProbCut nad Multi-ProbCut have not yet been applied to chess
successsfully, AFAIK.

=Ernst=



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