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Subject: Re: Prinicipal Variation Search

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 16:15:57 08/07/03

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On August 07, 2003 at 19:02:34, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I am reading up on the PVS and had a question regarding different code found at
>different places... At this webiste:
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html#principal the value of "alpha"
>is never changed inside the loop;

The formulation there is a bit unusual, but alpha is updated inside the loop. I
see inside the loop in the above URL:

   if (best > alpha) alpha = best;

Regards,
Dieter

• Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Rick Bischoff 16:18:51 08/07/03
  • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Dieter Buerssner 16:25:38 08/07/03
    • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Omid David Tabibi 16:36:45 08/07/03
      • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Dieter Buerssner 16:50:59 08/07/03
        • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Russell Reagan 20:25:45 08/07/03
          • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Dieter Buerssner 17:14:48 08/08/03
          • Re: Prinicipal Variation Search Dieter Buerssner 08:11:36 08/08/03

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