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Subject: Re: How I Learned to Stop Hating 141

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 08:22:22 09/03/04

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On September 03, 2004 at 11:02:24, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On September 03, 2004 at 10:48:53, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2004 at 10:39:27, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>   null_value = -search(-beta, -(beta+1), depth-(R+1)*PLY);
>>
>>I hope you meant to say -beta, -beta+1 :-)
>
>Argh.  Yet another stupid mistake.  You are right, I meant to write:
>
>   null_value = -search(-beta, -(beta-1), depth-(R+1)*PLY);

and why not for clearness

null_value = -search (beta-1, beta, depth-(R+1)*PLY);

I find it very usefull, only needing to make the correction at the top of
search, but it is worth the shame imho.



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