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Subject: Re: Selectivity at depth == 1

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 11:05:19 01/17/06

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On January 16, 2006 at 19:11:31, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
>
>   Which of two things do you want?
>
>      A) eval must be atleast a pawn better than alpha
>              (this is what you have coded)
>    OR
>      B) eval must be no less than a pawn below alpha
>              (for this change your + to a - in "<= alpha +"
>
>      If the eval is a quick material only eval, then (B) makes more sense
>  to me. Typically one would have a quick material only eval at such a point.

Great - I've switched to B and thanks.

The code is controlled by an #ifdef that is not currently active as it
didn't seem to help the program - mostly par.

Stuart



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