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Subject: Re: a question about redesigning my alphabeta

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 13:14:39 03/13/04

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On March 13, 2004 at 15:51:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>I redesign my alphabeta and I think to start my alphabeta by trying null move
>because checking for repetition or for hash cut off can be done at the end of
>alpha beta.
>
>When I look at Crafty's code I see that Crafty starts not with null move but
>with checking for repetition and hash.
>
>My question is if there is a soecial reason that I do not understand that Crafty
>does it.
>It seems to me a waste of time to call alphabeta with all the parameters when it
>can be avoided.
>
>Uri

Which costs more: checking for a repetition, or searching a subtree?

anthony

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