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Subject: Re: Definition of branching factor?

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 09:00:55 02/03/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 19:35:47, Tony Werten wrote:

>
>Quite normal when you evaluate with material only or eval=0
>
>>They tend to be much
>>higher on even plys.
>
>Comes with (plain) alfa-beta. You try to get around it with nullmove, extensions
>and an elaborated evaluation function.
>
>Some work left for you,
>
>Tony
>
Thanks Tony,

I have not been able to get null move to work, but I will keep on trying.
I have done some extensions before, but dropped them when I converted from
alpha/beta to negamax.  I have no idea what elaborated evaluation means.

Larry.



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