Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:17:58 06/03/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 17:38:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On June 03, 1998 at 17:14:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Will the search cut off the lines following the WEAK move ? >or will it prune them away since they are WEAKER. Neither. The search doesn't cut off "moves"... it cuts off "sub-trees". So a particular move has nothing to do with what is going on... it is what happens at the terminal nodes that affect what gets cut off back earlier in the tree... So I *always* search to the nominal search depth, plus the extensions, plus the capture search, and then decide whether I like that position or not. Which has nothing to do with the state of the board after one of the earlier moves... only with the state of the board after the entire path has been tried...
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