Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:49:16 11/14/02
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On November 14, 2002 at 09:45:37, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On November 14, 2002 at 08:45:12, José Carlos wrote: > >[snip] > >> I'm writing a new engine (MTDf) and, at this moment, I have nothing but >>material score. It fails low for c3 at ply 5 and doesn't consider it anymore. >> >> José C. > >Will you change the name of the engine or keep the old one? Also, may I ask what >the reasons are why you chose to use MTD(f) for your new engine? (I personally >think it's a fascinating search technique, but I'm a bit worried about search >instabilities - like getting a fail high and after a re-search getting a >fail-low) > >A curious Sargon :) I do not use MTD and do not plan to do it but I have search instabilities. I do not worry about them. search instabilities are results of logical pruning rules. I have pruning rules that are not null move pruning and even if you use only null move pruning you can get search instabilities. Uri
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