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Subject: Re: questions?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:22:15 04/08/04

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On April 08, 2004 at 09:04:15, Harald Lüßen wrote:

>On April 08, 2004 at 07:10:29, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>Here are some questions
>>
>>2.In Ed's paper there are some tricks done at horizon.
>>   trick one     if(score - (margin + largest hanging piece) > beta)
>>                        don't do quiescence
>>   trick two     if(score - 900 > beta)
>>                        don't do quiescence
>>   My question is every body does
>>              score=eval()
>>              if(score > beta)
>>                   don't do quiescence;
>>   So i don't see how the tricks work?


>His alpha is our beta and vice versa.

Really?

If true I need to re-read some papers :)

To clarify, suppose an aspiration search with a 0.50 window and a best move with
a 0.20 score then going to the next iteration I get a window of:

ALPHA = -0.30
BETA = 0.70

Your comment suggests:

ALPHA = 0.70
BETA = -0.30

Ed



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