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Subject: Re: Alpha/Beta move list (was: Re: rebel10 bug?)

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 06:29:45 10/20/98

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On October 20, 1998 at 09:03:46, Jari Huikari wrote:

>What about only having higher value for beta cutoffs in Ply=2. Won't it find
>then exact values of the best replies for opponent and so with quite a low
>cost values for legal moves? Two plies minimax, the rest alpha-beta. Can it
>cost many plies?

	Forget it... I have drunk too few coffee this morning!

Oh course it will take 19 times longer. But would this give any better
move ordering if used only in searchdepth=2 in iterative deepening? The
move order could be slightly better for deeper lookaheads?

					Jari



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