Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:45:15 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 http://www.brucemo.com/compchess/programming/matehash.htm This article by Bruce Moreland discusses the issue you are talking about, I think. He says it's more headache than it's worth to store the mate score as an exact score because of the translation that you have to do.
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