Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 12:07:46 09/13/02
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On September 12, 2002 at 18:30:07, martin fierz wrote:
>On September 12, 2002 at 16:50:38, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On September 12, 2002 at 16:10:38, martin fierz wrote:
>>
>>>bestvalue = -mate;
>>>for all moves do
>>> {
>>> value = -search(-beta,-alpha,etc);
>>> bestvalue = max(value, bestvalue);
>> alpha = max(value, alpha);
>>> if(value>beta)
Oops. As Uli pointed out, this should of course be >=. But we can blame Robert
Hyatt for this one :-) I just copy pasted from his post, and you probably did
the same.
>>> break;
>>> }
>>>return bestvalue;
>>>
>>>is there anything wrong with this?
>>
>>Pehaps you left it out on purpose - but this code snipped is missing an update
>>of alpha. For example at the place, I suggested above.
>
>hi dieter,
>
>you are right, i left it out, half on purpose i guess. it just seemed irrelevant
>to the return value. but it's in my code - although it's really unnecessary: in
>MTD you always fail, so you never have to update alpha.
Another oops. I totally forgot the context of the post (which is quite clearly
shown in the title). I of course totally agree with you.
Cheers,
Dieter
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