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Subject: Re: Infinite PV's / hash extraction repetition problem

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 17:38:31 02/24/03

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On February 24, 2003 at 20:23:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 24, 2003 at 20:17:05, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>Hey there.
>>
>>I've dumped the triangle PV and are extracting from hash now.
>>I'm wondering if what's happening here is normal....
>>
>>Sometimes when it finds a repetition it seems to go in a loop creating
>>infinitely long PV's. What is the right way to handle this, should I cut the PV
>>after 1st or 2nd rep, or just let it go nuts?
>
>Think about it.  If you go thru one loop, you will go thru an infinite number.
>:)

Yeah thought that was reasonable, but I couldn't figure out if maybe the depths
on the entries played a role here, but guess they don't.

>Cut the PV at the _first_ repetition.  :)

Okay, so do you print the first repeated move, as in
1.Qa4+ Bd7 2.Qb3 Be6 3.Qa4+ or just
1.Qa4+ Bd7 2.Qb3 Be6 ?

>Or else find a way to do int pv[infinity].
>
>:)

Hang on, I need a moment to reflect on that one.. :)

-S.



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