Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 03:11:29 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 05:52:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 21, 2002 at 05:47:38, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>When Crafty (and other engines) don't have a a move from the HT and want to >>search N plies, they first make a search of N-2 (or something similar) and try >>to get a move this way. Of course the search for N-2 plies will again don't have >>a HT-move, because it's the same position. So this search will try a N-4 search >>first, and so on.. internal iterative deepening :) >> >>[Please someone correct me if I'm wrong here :)] > >Hmm, wouldn't what you descibe degenerate into nothing? > >-- >GCP I skipped the break condition, which of course is a bad thing to do when trying to explain something. Sorry about that:) But I would assume that as soon as the ply-number gets negative (or HUGE positive, grins) one would stop with it and just do a regular search w/o a hash move. Sargon
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