Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:17:48 04/11/02
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On April 11, 2002 at 05:07:20, Andrew Williams wrote: >On April 11, 2002 at 03:58:01, martin fierz wrote: > >>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? > >I get mine out of my transposition table. > >Andrew so do i, but you have no guarantee that you get the whole PV, because an entry in the TT might have been overwritten... cheers martin
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