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

Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso

Date: 06:10:09 05/13/05

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On May 13, 2005 at 08:13:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

So, you only change alpha in case of an exact score, right?

Alvaro



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