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Subject: Re: INFINIITY question

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 10:41:26 11/28/01

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On November 28, 2001 at 13:05:23, Derek Mauro wrote:

>When I call search(), I'm supposed to be using -INFINITY as alpha and INFINITY
>as beta.  Anyway, I've never used INFINITY in a program before.  How do I use
>INFINIITY?  Do I need to include a special library or just define it as the
>largest possible int value, or something else?

Just use the value you use for checkmate (without depth correction ) That's
infinite enough.

Tony



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