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Subject: Re: How to manage search depth in limited time?

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 11:17:07 03/16/01

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>This is an idea that I haven't had time to try (of course, most probably it
>was tried before by somebody else...).
>Suppose this scenario: I have alloted 30 s for the move, I finish one iteration
>at 20 s so most probably I won't be able to finish the next one on time.
>Would it be useful to go to the next iteration searching with alpha, alpha+1
>just to test if the pv_move fails low? If it doesn't, I just return that move.

Well you also can fail high, which gives you another good move. This also can
happen without finishing the current iteration so I think it is wise to search
normally.

Severi



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