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Subject: Re: Alpha-Beta-Conspiracy Search (it is not Conspiracy-Number Search!)

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 14:34:40 01/01/00

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On December 31, 1999 at 16:39:08, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I substituted ABC-Search for the usual AB search in MTDf, the straight undiluted
>stuff. Look at MTDf, its AB with only one value instead of two. The reason I
>switched to dynamic criterions was the fact that generating all legal moves near
>the leaf node slows the search down, and the fact that I could get better
>information about the need to extend search by minimaxing some select values in
>my eval in the AB search I already have to do in IID. You can fix the problem w.
>no fixed horizon by introducing a lower limit to the remaining depth, that
>switches off the ABC search and goes to straight AB.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson

How do you handle the transposition table? Since the search depth of a subtree
is not known when it is searched (not a uniform subtree). A natural choice would
be depth = max-depth + min-depth (max- and min-depth as described in the paper).

Alessandro



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