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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:43:14 05/13/05

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On May 13, 2005 at 09:10:09, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>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

In a way of thinking, yes.  But in Crafty alpha is the actual score so far
anyway at any particular ply, so yes, I do change that on an EXACT match,
otherwise, I don't change anything.



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