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Subject: Re: Do the ply zero and one indentical to every other ply?

Author: leonid

Date: 14:57:48 12/26/99

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On December 26, 1999 at 15:55:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 26, 1999 at 15:26:13, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Do the ply zero and one written in identical way, like all other plies in usual
>>chess game?
>>
>>Recently glanced rapidly though the description of one good chess game that is
>>freeware. Found that this game, that was indicated to me as "usual one", have
>>reusable procedures for all the plies, if I understood correctly. So my question
>>is: Do all the plys use the same procedure and because of this they are
>>identical? In my logic not only ply zero and one use special procedure for
>>speeding the logic but even three plys over have some special writing. Beyond
>>this, everything is the same with the exception of two upper plys.
>>
>>Thanks for response!
>>Leonid.
>
>I don't.  I do ply 1 separately, because I sort the moves differently. For
>normal plies, moves are removed from the move list as they are searched.  For
>ply=1, I don't want to do this..  You will see a SearchRoot() in Crafty that is
>different from Search().

Thanks!
That fix my doubt.

Leonid.



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