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Subject: Re: next deep blue

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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