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Subject: Re: Pruning problems still...

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 06:07:50 09/17/98

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On September 14, 1998 at 16:39:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>... If your move ordering is good, the first move should be better than
>the second, correct?  To confirm this, you search the second move, but again,
>if your move ordering is good, you quickly find a move by your opponent that
>"refutes" this move and you can stop as soon as you find a ply=2 move that
>produces a score that is worse for you than the score for the first move
>you searched.

I do exactly this. Even tried with cutoffs only at ply=2, which certainly
_should_ work. But still it produces those strange sacs. :-<

					Jari



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