Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Question for the MTD(f) experts

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 03:25:18 04/14/04

Go up one level in this thread



>
>When a fail-low or fail-high score is suspect for some reason, I usually
>return gamma-1 or gamma rather than the exact score (gamma is my search
>bound).

Having a 'safe' margin for cut moves may destroy the usability of the bestmove.
In fact you may have one of the worst moves as 'bestmove' in that case.
Perhaps an idea is to only store the bestmove when the score < gamma-1.

Richard.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.