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Subject: Re: Extended futility pruning and hashtables

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:47:59 01/01/00

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On December 31, 1999 at 17:51:13, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

[snip]
>Please also note that normal futility pruning at frontier nodes with
>a remaining depth = 1 and extended futility pruning at pre-frontier
>nodes with a remaining depth = 2 are two different flavours of futility
>pruning in the main search.

The most important difference being that one is sound and the other isn't,
right ?

[...]
>Just treat the selective score as a lower bound. Because you did not
>search some moves at all, the real score might actually be better.

Thanks for the help. I've added the whole bunch to Sjeng and it seems
to give *big* gains with no noticable loss of tactical strength.

I'm going to try them for bughouse/crazyhouse too...I suspect that
will give even better results.

--
GCP



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