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Subject: Re: Schröder's new web page

Author: José Carlos

Date: 08:45:37 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 11:18:58, Alessandro Damiani wrote:

>On December 28, 2002 at 10:10:53, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>It seems Ed Schröder has added a bit more to his web page:
>>
>>http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#SEARCH
>>
>>I have the feeling that ES will be getting a lot of thank yous for quite awhile
>>for his fine contributions to computer chess.
>>
>>Thanks again!
>
>It seems to me that there are two typos in the following code:
>
>{
>   if (remaining_depth > 2
>      && king_not_in_check
>      && move_is_no_capture
>      && move_is_not_giving_a_check) then
>       { if (ALPHA < SCORE + MARGIN) reduce depth with 1 }
>}
>
>1) king_not_in_check <=> move_is_not_giving_a_check


  I guess he means both positions (before and after the move) are not in-check
positiones.


>2) instead of
>
>       ALPHA < SCORE + MARGIN
>
>   it should be
>
>       ALPHA > SCORE + MARGIN
>
>   since this is equivalent to
>
>       SCORE < ALPHA - MARGIN

  I was about to comment on this. I agree with you.
  Also, I find strange the TABLE values, 0x500 = 1280, which is too large. I
think he means just 500,700,900 etc.

  José C.


>
>Ed?
>
>Alessandro



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