Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:13:57 01/18/98
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On January 18, 1998 at 00:19:35, Rickard Björklund wrote: >Can someone tell me the point of using fail-soft alpha beta (or the >reason for not using it) ? > >What effect has fail-soft when using hash tables ? > >Rickard Main effect is that you can return scores outside alpha/beta. When you fail high (or low) at the root, this can give you an "estimate" of how far to widen the window. I tried it, but don't use it at present, because it made debugging confusing. It did not speed me up or slow me down a measurable amount, however...
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