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Subject: Re: MTD(f) Problems

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 09:30:42 04/12/02

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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.

That means you store a best move on an upper bound score ? That doesn't work so
good for normal ab.

Tony

>
>Andrew



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