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Subject: Re: Question about aspiration search

Author: rasjid chan

Date: 08:10:16 03/23/04

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On March 23, 2004 at 09:43:31, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:

>If you're using a small aspiration window at the root, and it fails low (this is
>a score below the lower window value, right?), is there any chance that the REAL
>score is actually above the window value? If this is possible, could you give me
>an example?
>Thank you,
>
>  Jaime
I think this is about search inconsistency or instability.
If you don't have hashing, prunning, extentions that are dependent
on alpha-beat bounds, all subsequent research searches the same tree
basically and a research score cannot be higher than your first upper bound.

Rasjid



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