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Subject: Re: Which Algorithm is considered the best ?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:04:18 08/07/00

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On August 06, 2000 at 20:26:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Actually MTD is great for testsets. MTD is having a huge problem if
>you start playing games with it however and the vice versa happens.

Completely unjustified, as always.

>If i'm at 0.600 now with PVS at iteration is 8, and the chess prog
>starts smelling trouble, then suppose we fail low to 0.300, now
>aren't that 300 researches with MTD?
>
> THREEHUNDERD RESEARCHES?

Vincent, if it takes you 300 researches to fail low by 0.3 pawns with mtd(),
your code is seriously broken.

Dave

• Re: Which Algorithm is considered the best ? Vincent Diepeveen 05:21:26 08/08/00
  • Re: Which Algorithm is considered the best ? Dave Gomboc 11:48:55 08/08/00

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