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Subject: Re: Using just Upperbounds and Lowerbounds

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 09:00:23 02/04/01

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On February 04, 2001 at 10:46:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 04, 2001 at 04:50:34, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

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>>If I'm not mistaken you said _internal_iterative_deepening_ can be used to fill
>>the PV below this point. Can you explain the details, you see I'm a novice on
>>this things.
>>
>>Alvaro Cardoso
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>
>
>I don't use it to fill in the PV. But if I reach a node where I am trying to
>find a PV (using PVS I detect this where beta != alpha+1 in the search) and I
>don't have a hash-table move to search, I do a short iterated search to find the
>best move so that I can try it first and not have horrible move ordering.
>
>All I do is say "(1) is this a PV node (beta != alpha+1) and (2) do I not have
>a hash move to search here?"  If the answer to both is yes, I simply call
>search with the same position and ply, but depth-2.  However, _that_ search
>will have the same problem so it too will again call search with depth-2-2,
>and so forth...

I am curious, would depth-1 take much time?

Miguel






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