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Subject: Re: next deep blue

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 12:51:54 01/25/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 15:35:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>Hsu mentioned "we disabled the futility pruning in the q-search which slowed
>the
>chip by a factor of 10..."  Most noticed the factor of 10.  _I_ noticed the
>"we disabled the futility pruning".  Because Hsu and I had had a _long_
>discussion about this in r.g.c a few years back.  I ran a bunch of tests using
>SEE, MVV/LVA and SEE+futility, and posted the results.  Apparently he liked the
>data and implemented this quietly.

As far as I know, Hsu was always convinced that MVV/LVA with
futility pruning in the quiescence search was the right way
to go -- he already wrote about it in his Ph.D. thesis. Even
"ChipTest" did it exactly like this I suppose.

So, no surprises here. He did not implement anything quietly.

>We learned something about DB (or at least
>I did) in this simple discussion...

Not really anything  new ... unfortunately (see above).

=Ernst=



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