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Subject: Re: Q: Singular extensions

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 16:48:25 01/05/04

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>>Here is what I tried (idea from Bruce I believe):
>>
>>Before you search all moves (after nullmove) you search all moves (unsorted)
>>with D-R
>
>  Good point I had missed :)
>  I was doing an expensive D search with (Alpha-Margin,Alpha-Margin+1) and if
>only one move failed high, search it again with (Alpha,Beta) extended 1 ply.
>
>>and check if there is one and only one move with a score above alpha
>>*and* above Alpha-Margin.
>
>  So if I get it right, you search all moves with D-R and a null window around
>Alpha-Margin. If only one move fails high, then search it again with D-R and a
>null window around Alpha. If it fails high again, then that move is extended.

It did not do this, but your idea might be better. I did one single pass with
window(Alpha-M, Alpha) and simply counted the results.

>  Thanks for the tips. I'll report my results if I manage to make it work.

Please do, I am interested.


Bas.



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