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Subject: Re: MTD(f) Problems

Author: martin fierz

Date: 00:58:01 04/11/02

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On April 11, 2002 at 02:22:55, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:

>On April 10, 2002 at 21:02:51, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 10, 2002 at 19:40:45, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>>
>>>Almost everyone here speaks AlphaBeta :(.
>>
>>Vincent uses MTD(f), IIRC.
>>Smallpotato's author uses MTD(f).
>>KnightCap uses MTD(f).
>>
>>There are maybe 6-7 others who like it.
>
>I use it, but i don't like it. Search instabilities seem harder to handle. Next
>version of smallpotato will probably switch to aspiration search.
>
>Alejandro

i use MTD in my checkers program. it searches smaller trees,  but also has
drawbacks. i agree on the search instabilities, and AFAIK, you cannot get a PV
with MTD - which makes understanding why it played a move harder... or is there
a way to get a PV?

• Re: MTD(f) Problems Andrew Williams 02:07:20 04/11/02
  • Re: MTD(f) Problems Tony Werten 09:30:42 04/12/02
  • Re: MTD(f) Problems martin fierz 14:17:48 04/11/02
    • Re: MTD(f) Problems Andrew Williams 01:25:24 04/12/02
      • Re: MTD(f) Problems Dan Andersson 09:10:11 04/12/02
        • Re: MTD(f) Problems Gian-Carlo Pascutto 11:35:35 04/12/02
          • Re: MTD(f) Problems Miguel A. Ballicora 14:36:31 04/12/02

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