Author: Fabien Letouzey
Date: 02:47:53 07/28/04
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On July 28, 2004 at 05:16:24, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 27, 2004 at 06:39:25, Fabien Letouzey wrote: > >>I think this difference is Bruce's own interpretation and does not represent the >>original PVS algorithm. I think that, in the official articles, both PVS and >>NegaScout use what you describe as "negascout" here. >> >>I might be wrong. >> >>It seems Bruce's modification is an attempt to integrate the aspiration-search >>assumption with PVS. This is interesting. > >How is "original PVS" different from Bruce's version? I learned Bruce's version >first... :) OK, ignoring the PVS/NegaScout differences, normal PVS is: 1) search the first (leftmost) move with full window 2) use a scout search (null window) for all other moves The assumption is that the first move will often be the best one. Bruce's assumption seems to include the aspiration-search assumption (the final score is likely to be inside of the window). Of course if aspiration is not used, both algorithms give the same result. Fabien.
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