Author: Bo Persson
Date: 08:24:08 02/26/06
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On February 26, 2006 at 05:40:31, Dudu wrote: >Does anyone has articles/links/data about MTDF and AlphaBeta algorithms? > >I would love to receive any related material. tx. > >One question that I failed to answer is this: AlphaBeta algorithm (using a hash) >returns a value, but not the best move. What is the best move? >If AlphaBeta fails high, than I guess the best move is the one that caused the >beta cut off, Yes. > but if it fails low? The move that had received the returned score >is not nessecery the best one (the result score is a maximum score, and the real >score could be much lower than this). >So what is the best move found on a certain AlphaBeta call? > There is no best move, when all of them are considered bad. :-) You have to lower the alpha value, and search again. Repeat until at least one move scores above alpha. Bo Persson
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