Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:20:46 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 14:21:19, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>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
What did they say?
Christophe
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