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Subject: Re: Alpha/Beta adjustments via the hashtable or why Fritz 7 has messy PV's

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:34:03 12/03/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 03:55:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>I do not understand it and I will be happy to see an example of a tree
>that leads to pruning the main line.

It should happen in any branch where there was some form
of forward pruning leading to a lower bound on the score,
and where the branch was researched later on.

There are probably other cases, but this is the obvious
example.

>I do not agree
>If I analyze a position for many hours for depth 19 and the program found an
>interesting sacrifice then I do not want to analyze also the position after the
>sacrifice for many hours to get depth 18 in order to understand the reason for
>the sacrifice.

Play out the move. Enough data should still be in the hashtables
that 18 ply can be reached fairly fast.

This is assuming that it did not give a full mainvariation in the
first place.

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GCP



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