Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 00:04:44 02/09/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 02:43:52, Larry Griffiths wrote: >I have been using Floating point (double) for my evaluation (scoring) >function. I set some variables to 0.0 when starting the Alpha-Beta search. >I add values to these variables when a move is made and then subtract them >back out when restoreing the piece. I have found that the result is not >always returned back to 0.0. I get something like 3.56234567343534-18. > >Should I be using integers for scoring instead? > >Thanks in advance! :-> > >Larry I think most programs use integers or longs for the scoring. I see two advantages: 1. faster code 2. (probably) more stable search and more cutoffs Frank
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