Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 16:10:08 08/03/99
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>You bet. You can't just terminate the qsearch at a fixed depth (this was >discussed at length in another thread). This may appear to work but sooner >or later your program will make gross blunders, because bad scores at >the bottom of the tree can be backed up clear to the root .. that's how >alpha-beta works. What happens if you just bail out at 12 ply depth by returning alpha - 1. This return value should not affect the top level at all -- it should just say "there is something better you can do at the ply above" -- right? What was the title of the thread before about this? I'd like to do some reading :) Scott
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