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Subject: Re: INFINIITY question

Author: Derek Mauro

Date: 12:31:52 11/28/01

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On November 28, 2001 at 13:41:26, Tony Werten wrote:

>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

Thanks.  I figured there was no way to represent infinity on a computer and I
was testing it with the mate score.  I was really just wondering about the whole
thing.

Derek



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