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Subject: Re: Alpha-Beta fool: for Ed Schröder

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 15:12:39 03/27/01

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On March 27, 2001 at 17:56:15, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>Ed Schröder posted a few weeks ago about experimenting with a larger alpha-beta
>window at low plies to improve move ordering at greater depths. I never saw
>anything more on this. Did I miss it ?

I did not read his post, but some older programmers did use about the same
thing, that is, they started by using a window of +infinity, -infinity. The
process can slow you down a little, but then I do not know what Ed had proposed.
Maybe he shorted it a bit?
Bill




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