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Subject: Re: Multiple decision changes in eval from ply 7 or 8 forward

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:21:13 12/18/99

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On December 18, 1999 at 09:15:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>This has already been done.  To prevent the oscillation you mention.  You can
>simply 'fudge' up the score for the first move, and adjust alpha/beta to match,
>or you can leave the score for the first move alone, but search all remaining
>moves with score+N, score+N+1.  I tried it many years ago, but didn't like it.
>If you believe your eval, then you believe that +.05 is worth something...

It seems like you could save a LOT of time doing this in some positions... that
isn't worth it? Do you have some statistics?
-Tom



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