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Subject: Re: New stuff on Ed's page

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:14:11 12/30/02

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On December 30, 2002 at 03:49:40, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On December 29, 2002 at 19:35:52, Martin Giepmans wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 2002 at 19:05:51, Tony Werten wrote:
>>
>>>http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm
>>>
>>>Tony
>>
>>The formula for reductions 2b and 2c look strange:
>>"alpha < score + threat + margin --> reduce depth ..."
>
>The formula is okay, read the purpose of the reduction:
>
>"The idea is, reduce the depth in case the score plus the (material) threat plus
>an extra margin still does not get it to ALPHA the future of this subtree isn't
>very promising, thus reduce."

It should be
if score + threat + margin<alpha

It was posted by another poster.

Uri



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