Author: José Carlos
Date: 04:45:51 01/24/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 15:39:44, Paul wrote: >On January 23, 2001 at 15:12:12, Andrew Dados wrote: > >>On January 23, 2001 at 14:34:48, Paul wrote: >> >>>Great results by all that tried! This nodecount is pretty low, Ed! :) >>>One (serious) question: why don't you extend immediately from the root, >>>then it would be even lower! I do :) >> >>Maybe Ed wants Rebel to finish 1st iteration and get *any* value fast? >> :) >> >>-Andrew- > >Aahhhh ... you mean he's trying to play chess, not just find mates ;?) > >But seriously, I kind of remember reading in crafty for example that >there extending starts only at ply=2, and I've tried that, but don't >really see why not at ply=1? I'm sure I'm overlooking something, but >in my program it seems to work ok. What are other programmers doing? If I recall well, ply=1 is the root node for Bob, so it doesn't make sense to extend in the root node. José C. >Paul > >PS: I find the complete solution to the last problem in <3700 nodes ;)
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