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Subject: Re: Question do Dr. Hyatt: Adjusting bounds with the hashtable

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:13:41 05/13/05

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On May 13, 2005 at 05:15:07, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Hi,
>I saw that you removed the code that adjusts the bounds in Hashprobe().
>Could you please elaborate on that? Was it wrong or unsafe before?
>You had it for a long time, it sure must be sound.
>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso


Just wasn't worth doing.  With PVS, 99.999% of all positions searched are
searched with a null-window.  Adjusting alpha or beta doesn't do anything there
to speak of...



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