Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:38:58 08/09/01
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On August 09, 2001 at 06:12:52, Martin Giepmans wrote: best move is, say, Nc3. Score +0.10. > >I think this proves your point: drawscores influence other (nonzero) scores. >However, along path B white has obviously not played the best moves. >If white gets 0.10 instead of 0.40 there must be something wrong with either 2. >Nf3 or 1. d4 or both. >So, my question is: does this influence of drawscores minimax downto the root of >the tree? My first thougth was no, my last (thought 31) is: I really don't know >... The answer is yes, as anyone who has seen the fail-high/fail-low effect in a vanilla program with nothing special except hash tables can attest. This was the subject of one of my first r.g.c.c. posts, in 1994. bruce
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