Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:34:57 05/13/03
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On May 13, 2003 at 21:30:01, John Boyd wrote: >Hi all, > >Usually, a mate score is greater than beta and thus is stored as a LOW BOUND in >the hash table. > >But why? Assuming its the true score, shouldn't it be stored as an EXACT score? > >I guess the problem is in assuming it is indeed the shortest mate. Is that why? > >Thanks, > >Ross you can have exact mate scores, _and_ mate bounds. They both can be stored just fine if you don't have bugs. The main point is to adjust a mate score/ bound so that it is mate in N from the current ply, rather than mate in M from the root...
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