Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:33:22 11/04/00
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>I'm not aware of anything that says that when using fail-soft, you _must_ start >off at +/- infinity. Isn't it the definition of "fail soft", to initialize best = -infinity in the full search region ? May be I'm confusing things again. > I don't, for example, yet I still let the search return >values outside alpha/beta. I don't see how to get an upper bound < alpha, when the best value had been initialized to alpha. Your search will just return the initial value in case of a "fail low", won't it ? > I found it slightly better because you get a bit >better info out of the hash table. But it was only a "bit" better. Not a huge >win. Why do you get better info out of the hash table in this case ? > >More important if you use mtd(f) of course. Thanks, Uli
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