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Subject: Re: Forward pruning

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 11:28:08 10/19/99

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On October 19, 1999 at 07:40:54, Antonio Dieguez wrote:

>On October 18, 1999 at 16:55:42, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>
>>Hi Robert!
>>
>>>In crafty, 'razoring' is gone...  I didn't like it overall and finally took it
>>>out forever...
>>
>>Good! That makes me feel much better in my ongoing experiments to eliminate
>>razoring from my own program :-)
>>
>>Heiko.
>
>am sorry, I know that many posts about razoring could have been posted but I
>have dont seen it, can you tell me whats that?
>
>thanks.
>
>
>me.

	Bob has already explained 'razoring' better than I could, so let me only say
that it is a technique to unbalance the search tree by discarding some leaf
positions (supposedly uninteresting). These unbalancing techniques are what most
disinguishes search-based programs.
Me.
(Happosai, the grandmaster of the anything-goes martial arts school).



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