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Subject: Re: WAC 100 and Kb3

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:23:05 09/13/01

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On September 13, 2001 at 17:56:12, Dann Corbit wrote:

>What components make a program choose Kb3?
>How are some programs able to avoid it?

The alpha/beta search with hashing.

If you insert two bogus moves, the score at the end of the PV is unaffected. The
alphabeta search doesn't care what depth the score it gets comes from.

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GCP



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