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Subject: Re: Anyone for an 'increasing expectation' heuristic?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 14:16:41 05/03/99

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On May 03, 1999 at 11:48:21, Guido Schimmels wrote:

>On May 03, 1999 at 09:24:49, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>I don't have ChessBase, but I think any such feature must be based on doing
>>n searches - which should be n times slower. If you ask for the best two moves
>>does it take (a little less than) twice as long? Perhaps I'm missing something?
>>
>>Andrew
>
>No, you don't miss anything :)
>It is done by leaving alpha/beta untouched (at root level) until after move n.
>And of course this slows things down terribly.
>
>- Guido -

Hmm.. by "untouched", do you mean +- inf?  Or rather, do you keep the window
narrow around the expected result?  Because if, for example, there's only one
good move, then moves 2-n will fail low, and you won't get the score back.

And is it pvs, mtd, or ?

Will



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