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Subject: Re: Bruce Moreland on collecting the principle variation. Is this correct?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 08:47:01 04/29/02

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On April 29, 2002 at 09:50:57, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 29, 2002 at 02:59:56, José Carlos wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>
>>  If you want to do PVS or Aspiration Search or any other windowed search at the
>>root, you must handle the root moves differently, but if you do a plain
>>AlphaBeta with initial -inf,+inf window, the above code must work with no
>>problem, and give a PV always.
>>
>>  José C.
>
>Note that if you call your search() with depth=0 (and therefore only make a
>qsearch) you also may return w/o a move but only a score.
>
>Sargon

How do most people handle this? Do they include the qsearch moves in their PV?

Russell



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