Author: Tony Werten
Date: 01:29:58 05/13/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 03:35:00, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>Hello
>
>My search is fail soft(i return the actual score)
>when i fail high at the root i widen the window by 3 pawns (300).
>
> if(score<=r_alpha)
> {
> r_beta=r_alpha;
> r_alpha=score-300; //r_alpha = -MATESCORE;
> }
> else if(score>=r_beta)
> {
> r_alpha=r_beta;
> r_beta=score + 300; //r_beta = MATESCORE;
> }
>If the search fail's high at 1.75 score but the real score was 10
>i get a score of 4.75 (1.75 + 3) in the next iteration. Why? my search is fail
>soft and the score returned should be independent of beta. If i change the 200
>to 300,score returned is 4.75??
Failsoft is not independent of beta, it's only less dependent.
Tony
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