Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 13:32:30 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 09:20:08, Steve Maughan wrote: >Hi Tony, > >>sorry I'm not a cook. What is a vanilla A/B ? Does this mean you start with -oo >>and + oo ? That would explain somethings. > >Aha 'vanilla' is a British expression for 'plain' as in the ice-cream! No I'm >not using +/- inf. > >>When you're doing the nullmove do you use R=2 ? ( That means you're doing >>value=-research(dept-3,-b,-a) > >R=2 > >>Did you make sure your killers aren't captures ? > >They are not double counted - is that what you mean? - but they can be captures. > >It does puzzle me. I guess it could be simply that my program is young and I >need to be more selective - but then Crafty isn't that selective. What does >XiniX do from the initial position? > Well, my program "chezzz" is pretty young and straightforward too, but it searches to the 9th ply in about 8 secs on a 450MHz PII, with about 1.6 M nodes. Just to compare.
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