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

Author: Pat King

Date: 08:16:02 02/25/03

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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?
>Or is this a sign of a bug somehow?
>
No bug. Trap this using whatever means you're trapping draws by repetition. If
you're scoring draws correctly, this just says your program's happy with a draw
here.
Pat



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