mcostalba/Stockfish — pull request #13 by glinscott (2012-04-15 21:45:09+00:00)
Title: Less pruning

Another fake pull request :). More to start a discussion on the pruning in general. The pruning right now is incredibly aggressive, and works quite well. Dropping it back a tiny bit was +1 in 16k 2"+0.05 games self-play (obviously well with margin of error).

I wonder if pruning less aggressively would be more beneficial against other engines though. I can start a gauntlet, but it probably wouldn't be very decisive. More a philosophy question I guess :).