Author: Omid David
Date: 19:29:44 07/06/02
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On July 06, 2002 at 10:20:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 06, 2002 at 01:07:36, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >> >>Okay, but so what? >> >>> >>>So perhaps the idea of "forward pruning" is foreign to us as well... >> >>I see no logical difference between deciding which moves are interesting and >>worth looking at and deciding which moves are not interesting and not worth >>looking at. It looks to me like 2 sides of the same coin, so your speculation >>that "perhaps the idea of "forward pruning" is foreign to us as well..." does >>not seem to be of any consequence. >> > >However, that has been _the point_ of this entire thread: Is DB's search >inferior because it does lots of extensions, but no forward pruning. I >simply said "no, the two can be 100% equivalent". Just a quick point: The last winner of WCCC which *didn't* use forward pruning was Deep Thought in 1989. Since then, forward pruning programs won all WCCC championships...
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