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Subject: Re: Side effects of lazy eval?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:18:58 09/27/00

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On September 27, 2000 at 12:10:00, Carlos del Cacho wrote:

>On September 27, 2000 at 09:26:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 27, 2000 at 07:47:18, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>Supposing no "lazy-errors" at all were made, does anyone know if there are
>>>serious side-effects to lazy eval?
>>
>>None at all.  Except that guaranteeing this is a bit hard.  :)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>I one experiment that I yet have to repeat, it seems that NPS increases, but
>>>Depth (as averaged over 300 wac positions) does not.
>>>
>>>I would like to know if others have seen alike or other problems with LE.
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Bas Hamstra.
>>
>>It has been used forever.  As a classic trade-off between speed and accuracy.
>
>Just a question related with this. Since I implemented lazy eval in my program I
>don't store the value returned by search in the hash table when there's a fail
>high or a fail low. I just store beta or alpha instead. Is this correct ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Carlos


That is one way to do it.  Storing values outside alpha/beta (referred to as
fail-soft alpha/beta) also works...



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