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Subject: Re: ETC

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 16:21:29 08/17/99

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On August 17, 1999 at 19:00:41, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On August 17, 1999 at 11:18:05, Dan Homan wrote:
>
>>Do any programmer's have experience with Enchanced Transposition Cutoffs?
>>It seems to me that these would be a fair amount of work at each node, but
>>I was wondering if people generally find the payoff to be worth it.
>>
>> - Dan
>
>What is ETC? A brief (but accurate) description is appreciated.
>José.

It stands for "Enhanced Transposition Cutoffs". The idea is that in every node
after you generated your moves and before you search, you check for every move
if the resulting position is in the hashtable, which hopefully leads to a cheap
cutoff.

I'm curious too, who uses this succesfully?


Regards,
Bas Hamtstra.















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