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Subject: Re: For Dr. Hyatt: Alpha-Beta window in Crafty?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:48:53 01/26/01

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On January 26, 2001 at 16:38:34, Lenard Spencer wrote:

>In the setting of the A-B window (iterate.c lines 175-177), how big an effect
>would it have if the window was widened from 40 centipawns to something like 60
>or 75?  Does this only affect fail-high/fail-low or are there other side
>effects?


The wider the window, the fewer fail high / fail low cases show up.  But the
tree gets a bit larger.  it won't hurt a thing to change it and test if you
would like to...



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