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Subject: Re: Is this a correct fail-soft?

Author: Mikael Bäckman

Date: 18:23:09 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 20:02:11, Zach Wegner wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 18:35:48, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2003 at 18:21:11, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>>	nLegal = 0;
>>>
>>>nlegal is not declared here.
>>
>>Same for other variables, you are using. Either your code snippets are
>>incomplete, or all those vars are global. I would guess the first (otherwise, I
>>would suspect total crazy search or crashes). When you give complete code
>>snippets, it will be easier to answer (even when the code is longer). In
>>principle, your code looks like proper fail soft.
>
>all the 'junk' is stripped.
>
>>What is the intention of your eval func (which always returns mate scores ...)?
>
>thats material.
>
>I'm not quite sure whats going on, but i would see if it still happens if you
>seperate
>
>if(score>alpha)
>{
>     if(score>=beta)return score;
>     alpha=score;
>}
>
>to
>
>if(score>=beta)return score;
>if(score>alpha)alpha=score;

Same thing isn't it? My way saves an if when score <= alpha. :)


>Regards,
>Zach


/Mikael



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