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Subject: Re: Question about aspiration search

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:22:09 03/23/04

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On March 23, 2004 at 14:35:46, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:

>  PROBLEM: Qsearch returns a false value, and it is stored in the hash as an
>"Exact" value (+0.24). This value fails high (-3.27,-3.25), so a research is
>done with a wider windows. But now there is a hash match with +0.24!, so Qsearch
>is never called. The result: +0.24. This would have never happened without hash
>tables... or with tables but without aspiration.

Have you carefully considered whether it is appropriate to store +0.24 into your
hash table as an exact value?  After all, this score was reached via a
quiescence search.

Dave



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