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Subject: Re: Negamax example

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 10:34:40 04/11/00

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Hi!


>The code example above will work if Evaluate() returns the evaluation value
>computed from whites or black perspektive depending on whos move it is.
>Another way is to always return whites evaluation and use return -Evaluate(pos)
>respectively return Evaluate(pos) depending on who's move it is.

Yes, thanks, I understand now totally. I somehow thought that Evaluation returns
a value which is NOT based on who's turn it is (well, my evaluation function
returns). So in my example the values must be negated once more to get the right
move.

Severi



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