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Subject: Re: next deep blue

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 21:06:19 01/26/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 21:26:19, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 25, 2000 at 13:33:36, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>It seems weird to me that when Ed Schroder says Rebel does better without
>>null-move than with it, people believe it, but people criticize the DB team for
>>not using it (e.g. from your text above: "by not using a good, known pruning
>>system...").
>
>If the DB team did not have enough time, they could simply take the null move
>algorithm because there is documentation available on it.
>
>However null move is not the final say. Rebel does very well with ANOTHER
>pruning system. Junior does very well with ANOTHER pruning system as well. And
>there are other programs that do fine without null move, one of which I know
>very well.

Yes, and DB does very well with ANOTHER pruning system too.  What's your point?

Dave



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