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Subject: Re: Regarding Qsearch with Fractional ply extensions

Author: Federico Corigliano

Date: 20:21:57 08/11/03

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On August 11, 2003 at 22:13:50, Zach Wegner wrote:

>On August 11, 2003 at 19:20:44, Federico Corigliano wrote:
>
>>With fractional ply extensions should the Qsearch be called if:
>>
>>remaining_depth <= 0
>>
>>or if
>>
>>remaining_depth < FULLPLY (in my engine this value is 100)
>>
>>What do you think?
>>
>>Federico
>
>It depends on where you call it. If you are calling it like so:
>
>for(all moves blah blah)
>{
>...
>    if(depth>FULLPLY)

I think that this line should be if(depth >= FULLPLY), so qsearch is called when
(depth < FULLPLY).

>        val=search(...);
>    else
>        val=qsearch(...);
>...
>}
>
>then the latter would work. But if you are using it the TSCP way:
>
>if(depth<=0)
>    return qsearch(...);
>....
>for(all moves)
>{
>    val=search(...);
>}
>
>then the former.
>HTH,
>Zach



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