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Subject: Re: Please, say in few words what can reduce the "branching factor".

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:46:40 09/19/99

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On September 19, 1999 at 21:51:12, leonid wrote:

>Please, say briefly what can reduce the "branching factor". I hope
>that something very simple I am missing in this aspect. My branching factor
>is only reason to feel me humiliated about my game. Maybe different logic
>lead to different "factor"? Do somebody came through the similer experience?
>And if it was so, what was the reason that you found?

Improve move ordering, use null-move forward pruning or something that does
roughly the same thing, and aggressively prune out crap in your quiescent
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bruce



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