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Subject: Re: null move and mate threat

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 06:57:37 10/09/04

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On October 08, 2004 at 19:43:46, Jan K. wrote:

>On October 08, 2004 at 19:24:08, David B Weller wrote:
>
>>Hi Stuart,
>>
>>Just working this thru 'out loud' ...
>>
>>Eg.,
>>
>>alpha = -30 beta = +50 depth = d
>>
>>so -beta, -beta+1 = -50, -49
>>
>>which gives new alpha = -50 and beta = -49 and depth = d-1
>>
>>now if one of the moves leads to a forced mate we fail high and return MATE-n
>>
>>which is negated to -MATE+n
>>
>>so, no, the 'null-window' search WILL return mate scores just fine.
>>
>
>this will work only if you return values outside (alfa,beta) bounds....as far as
>I remember he doesn't do that, in case of a fail high he returns beta instead of
>MATE-n
>
>>-David

I return(value).



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