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Subject: Re: My miscellany of minor chess programming problems ?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:20:28 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 11:16:42, Daniel Shawul wrote:

>   If null move fails high at pv node(position is too good to search further),
>will the pv not be shorter? ofcourse in this case there will be a fail/low at
>the root  , but the pv will still be short. If you want to have full long pvs
>always (even in fail highs/lows at root), you have to either disable your
>prunings at pv nodes Or use plain -INF,INF window which will give the same
>effect as the former.

I'm sorry, as usual I forgot about aspiration windows.  Aspiration windows
have never worked for me, and I tend to forget that most other people use
them.

Tord



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