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Subject: Re: Yo Bob!

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 08:05:39 10/22/00

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On October 22, 2000 at 10:11:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 22, 2000 at 08:04:44, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>:)
>>
>>Hello Mr. Hyatt.
>>
>>I was wondering about two things:
>>
>>1. Why do you check for depth<=421 in your nullmove condition ?
>>2. Why do you do extensions=Min(extensions,0) ? Won't that disable extensions?
>
>1.  in crafty, a ply is 60, so that is checking for depth <= 7, which is
>the point at which the R=2 value is used rather than R=3.
>
>2.  extensions is a normally _negative_ number... it is the amount I will
>_add_ to depth before recursively calling search.  It starts off at -60,
>and then gets something added to it for each extension triggered.  I simply
>make sure that I don't extend more than 1 ply with that check, since no
>increment=-60, 1ply increment=0 and anything > 0 could cause tree explosion.


Of course, on both accounts...

Word up! ;)



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