Author: Willie Wood
Date: 12:25:53 11/07/97
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On November 07, 1997 at 14:36:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 07, 1997 at 13:22:10, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>I throw this out to all chess software programmers. Why can't the screen >>show the alpha beta window at all times during the search as an option? >>Surely this information doesn't change so much that it would be >>unreadable. > >if you use PVS as I do, it will *always* simply be score, score+1, where >score is the score you see for the best move so far. That wouldn't be >very informative. if you don't use PVS, then yes it changes very >rapidly >as different parts of the tree are traversed and affect alpha/beta/both. >perhaps thousands of times per second... Bob, I could've sworn you said you didn't use a zero-width search, due to inefficiencies caused by pv oscillation. Or does PVS (score, score+1) not imply zero-width? WW
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