Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:19:36 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 09:09:18, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On May 28, 2002 at 04:05:47, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>I believe it is then safe to stop the search at 150 plies, that's 50 plies left >>for extensions(!), it will simply have to do, even if I get a crash in 1 of >>10000000 games ;) > >If you'd be in my programming team, either you or me would be looking for a new >job now. ;) A simple additional if-statement at the beginning of search makes >this 100% correct in all cases and slows down your engine by a _very_ small >factor. So basically you're just careless here - and therefore maybe also >careless in other places. ;) I prefer to be careless in these cases. If there is something that I believe that it cannot happen and it happens then I can learn from the fact that the program crushed. If I try to be careful I may never know about the problem because the program may run inspite of extensions that I did not expect. Uri
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