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Subject: Re: Question for the MTD(f) experts

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 00:46:08 04/14/04

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On April 14, 2004 at 03:30:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I decided to toss an MTD(f) search into TSCP, and I've got something wrong, but
>I can't quite see what it is.

MTD(f) requires a transposition hashtable and a fail-soft search to function
properly. Did you add/change that too?

As the same position is searched again and again with a different null-window,
the transposition table will contain many of the positions to search with a
bound yielding many cuts.

Richard.

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