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Subject: Re: Couple of chess programming questions: another MTD drawback

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:18:24 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 17:10:38, martin fierz wrote:

>On September 10, 2002 at 09:26:14, Eli Liang wrote:
>
>>(3) Reading Aske Plaat's search & re-search paper, it really seems like mtd(f)
>>is something of a magic bullet.  But I note it seems that more programs don't
>>use it than do (for example Crafty).  What is wrong with mtd(f) which Plaat
>>doesn't say?

losing 1 bit is a problem for you?

>one more thing: the way MTD is described on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~aske/mtdf.html,
>it stores both upper and lower bounds in the hashtable. making your hashtable
>smaller for a given memory size. IIRC, (but i am quite fuzzy on this...) the
>paper has comparisons of MTD with PVS for the same number of hashtable entries,
>which is the wrong number. he should have compared the algorithms with the same
>size hashtable. i never understood why you needed two bounds. i'm using one & it
>works :-)
>
>aloha
>  martin



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