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Subject: Re: To Chrisophe Theron, about Chess Tiger and Genius and Rebel

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 01:48:43 10/19/99

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On October 19, 1999 at 02:27:24, Christophe Theron wrote:
>What is really effective in Lang's program is its selectivity (the program's
>ability to prune efficiently irrelevant moves). I think that's why this program
>has been at the top for so long. Unfortunately (again) this selectivity is the
>best when the ply depth is low. If you play at really fast time controls or on a
>slow computer, and reach only 6 or 7 plies deep, that makes a difference. But at
>longer time controls or on fast computers, it doesn't give you more than other
>known (public) pruning techniques.

What about the, may be trivial idea, of switching on the high selctvity only at
a higher ply number, say after a few plys fully/"classically" calculated?

regards
Franz



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