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Subject: Re: Building the Principal Variation in MTD(f) searches

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 10:28:27 07/19/99

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On July 19, 1999 at 06:14:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

[snip]

>I'm quite positive my 8 probe hashtable works excellent.
>
>I'm quite sure i investigated MTD very well.
>
>So what are we talking about?
>
>i give 2 reasons why MTD sucks bigtime for my program namely:
>     - it searches space PVS doesn't search; called overhead
>     - it's worst case behaviour is simply losing games for me,
>       as in *some* positions where it's already tough to search with PVS
>       it is only busy researching and researching to get a bound.
>
>The only thing you say then is that i'm not using hashtables?
>Comon drop dead.

This isn't what I said.  I think it's clear you didn't read what I wrote very
carefully.  Oh well, it's not my problem.

[snip]

Dave



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