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Subject: Re: 0.01 seconds

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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