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Subject: Re: Enhanced Transposition Cuttofs

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 05:53:28 01/27/01

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On January 27, 2001 at 07:49:23, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Can some  one please explain in detail the inner workings of ETC?
>Do we use it before we start looping through all moves at a particular node and
>after the hash table look up?

Yes, but they can be very tricky.

- You have to take care of extensions specially thread extensions after the move
are difficult to find (in my program)

- You can only cutoff if the score comes back >=beta so you have to compare
against <=-beta and it has to be a BELOW_ALFA or EXACT node (or something like
that )

And probabely more, but by then I kicked them out already.

cheers,

Tony

>Do we need to store additional stuff in the hash table for ETC?
>Are there any freeware engines with free source code that use ETC?
>
>Thank you
>Alvaro Cardoso



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