Author: Larry Coon
Date: 08:51:35 10/23/98
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On October 22, 1998 at 23:21:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >it is more efficient to call evaluate *first*.. as this gives you a >better "lower bound" to search against, rather than doing the captures >and *then* choosing to stand pat. You choose to stand pat and let the >captures improve the score if they can... much easier, cleaner, and >will search fewer nodes... Ah, good point! I was calling evaluate at the top, but wasn't setting alpha to it until the end. Thanks again for your thoughts, and to everybody else who replied. Larry Coon
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