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Subject: Hashtable trick... or melon

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 12:10:57 02/14/00


 Let us consider a node at ply 0, where eval>alpha. We call qsearch, returned
score is < alpha. Now, at next iteration that position will also fail low
(assuming same alpha), because there will be no other moves for failing low side
then qsearch moves again...
So: we can store that score in HT with (depth + 1) instead of (depth) due to
above... or am I missing something? (I do that trick for a while, no side
effects found yet except for lower node count).

(The above assumes same set of moves is being considered on all qsearch plys)

-Andrew-



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