Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:21:19 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 13:00:39, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 27, 2000 at 00:06:19, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>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 > > >My point is that they claimed that they did not use one. Several of us, looking >at the apparent branching factor shown in the DB log files, have doubts about >this. > > > Christophe Where did they claim that they did not use one? In their published work they clearly stated the contrary. Dave
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