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Subject: Re: OK, where do I find the alpha-beta for Dummies documentation.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:46:55 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 08:38:27, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>I see that my moves have dropped from 1.6 million to 800,000 moves per second
>after adding what appears to be a simple alpha-beta algorithm.  Is there an
>explanation of the alpha-beta alorithm that a 3 year old could understand :)

Dropping that many NPS is not unusual (sadly).

Feel free to rip off TSCP's search functions. They're in search.c. The whole
file is 306 lines, including liberal commenting. Shouldn't take very long to
understand...

-Tom



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