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Subject: Re: Crafty PVS question

Author: José Carlos

Date: 04:41:31 09/01/02

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On September 01, 2002 at 06:19:33, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>>>Difference is that Crafty used alpha instead of value when it re-searches.
>>>Is there any reason to use alpha instead of value?
>>>Using value which is greater than alpha seems to cause more cutoffs than using
>>>alpha.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>I do this only because it is possible to fail low on the re-search, and now you
>>have the question of whether this fail-high/fail-low means anything.  I choose
>>to go to the full window so that if it fails low, I know it is not good and I
>>can ignore the fail high.  This is a null-move / hashing artifact that simply
>>happens to anyone doing PVS, null-move and hashing, all together...
>
>
>Just curious, if we removed null-move, would that artifact still happen?
>In other words, would PVS+hashing cause that?
>
>Regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso

  Less often, but it'll happen. I had it in older versions of Averno (0.32 and
prior) which didn't use null-move.

  José C.



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