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Subject: Re: Detecting three-fold repetition?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:48:16 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 18:42:52, Jesus de la Villa wrote:
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>I think they can save the move and its score from the ply 1 move list, since
>it is the actual legal moves available and will not disappear. So, they can
>randomly pick from the top 5 or 3 moves (razonably close to the best) and
>make the "random" move.
>I think this could work well.

How do they know the eval in centipawns of the move they choose?

What if the best move is a checkmate and all others lose?  How will you know?

Alpha-Beta only gives the score of the best move.



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