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Subject: Re: Prinicipal Variation Search

Author: Rick Bischoff

Date: 16:18:51 08/07/03

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Right you are, I didn't catch it the first glance because of the way the loop
was written.  Thanks!

>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



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