Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 05:38:59 11/08/02
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On November 08, 2002 at 08:33:02, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >>So you have >> >>if(alpha<=INF-QVALUE) >> >>And I presume you store mate scores as INF-depth_to_mate to head for shorter >>mates. And I also assume that you use 900 as QVALUE. So I don't understand a all >>what the above should do. if(alpha<VERY_LARGE_NUMBER) don't_extend. It looks >>like you are more or less disabling extensions in allmost every node. And when >>you enable them the position is allready very good (alpha>INF-900). I'll read >>your other reply (you posted code there) and answer to that. I still just don't >>understand the logic. >> >>Severi > > >I think he is saying "if this node is so bad that it is even a good candidate >for being pruned away, why waste time taking a closer look ?". > >/Matthias. if(alpha<=-INF+QVALUE)
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