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Subject: Re: Question: When to Use Internal Iterative Deepening

Author: William Bryant

Date: 20:00:36 02/12/01

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On February 12, 2001 at 22:39:21, William Bryant wrote:

>My understand is, Internal Iterataive Deepening is used when searching the
>root PV node and you encounter a position for which there is no hash table
>best move.  Specifically, this is done during the full width part of the
>tree (rather than the PVS part of the search).
>
>My program at present tests for this by comparing beta to alpha.
>ie if (beta == alpha+1) then this is the PVS part of the tree and IID should
>be skipped.
>
>This doesn't help at all so I think I'm missing something in the implementation.
>
>Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>William
>wbryant@ix.netcom.com

For Clarity,

if ((there_is_no_best_move) && (beta != alpha + 1)) {
	//do internal iterative deepening
	}

William




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