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Subject: Re: Fail high... What's a mother to do? Choosy mothers are said to choose..

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:04:40 05/15/00

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On May 15, 2000 at 17:11:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>b) Because of the goofed up search the program will sometimes discover something
>>new on the next ply and start failing high on a LOT of moves. If I can't
>>complete the search in time, I rather trust the last ply's result than
>>one of the new psuedo-good moves.
>
>I think this would make a very interesting heuristic study.
>Find out for fail high what the probability is that you should choose that move
>instead of the completed one.

Hmm...I think it's better to just try to stabilise the search a bit more
and do like everyone else does ;)

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GCP



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