Author: Amir Ban
Date: 01:28:02 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 00:42:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >maybe or maybe not. In 1970 we were _all_ selective searchers. Chess 4.x >changed that in 1975. By 1980 nobody that was winning was selective. Then >we went the other way with null-move and so forth. Maybe the right way is >not risky forward pruning, when you have enough horsepower. Which sounds >_exactly_ like what Slate/Atkin said in 1975 when you think about it. :) > The early selective searchers did pruning based on very superficial indicators, mainly move ordering through static evaluation. That was a stupid thing to do, and it is wrong at any level. Pruning, when based on more reliable indicators, is a good thing at any level. Amir
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