Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:15:13 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 04:48:43, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>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?
Why?
Christophe
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