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Subject: Re: DB Chip will kill all comercial programs or.....

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:11:24 05/14/99

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On May 14, 1999 at 17:07:21, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On May 14, 1999 at 15:11:07, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>
>>I asked him, he says no, that isn't the case.  Apparently Hsu gets better
>>parallel speedup by using only one bound, even though his search tree is larger
>>than it would be if he used two bounds.
>>
>>Dave
>
>	Which bound does Deep Blue keep? alpha? beta? sometimes alpha and sometimes
>beta?
>José.


you would probably want to call it 'gamma'...  but it is really both.  Either
the score is above 'gamma' or it is below 'gamma'.  Below and you fail low,
above and it fails high...  very mtd-ish...



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