Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:25:19 05/18/99
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If there is any sort of logical reason for the choice other than: "I will stop as soon as move 'x' looks best regardless of evaluation and time remaining" I would accept it as a valid choice. For instance, it might use a win/loss/draw statistic from a database or it might use an actual positional calculation of some sort to arrive at a sensible move. These are valid reasons for picking a move. The way that H7 picks a move when you ask it to hunt for a best move is bad for my purposes. I need a valid pv so that I could actually perform the needed sequence if called upon to do so. This is especially true since at least 25% of test suite answers are just plain wrong and I want to find the right answer (if such exists and can be found). If you just want to "score the epd suite" as quickly as possible, then the method H7 has chosen is optimal.
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