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Subject: Re: simple node definitions question

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 08:11:03 09/13/04

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On September 13, 2004 at 10:38:21, Michael Henderson wrote:

>That was great info everybody--thanks!
>
>So now I have these definitions:
>I added in some more
>
>(depth = 3) pre pre frontier node
>(depth = 2) pre frontier node
>(depth = 1) frontier node
>(depth = 0) horizon node?

Yes, according to Ernst Heinz Papers.

>(depth <= 0) qsearch node -- I don't increase my qsearch node counter when depth
>== 0, though.
>position with no successors searched = leaf node
>non-leaf node = interior node
>
>more:
>uppermost node = root node
>PV node; (val > alpha) && (val < beta)
>beta node: val >= beta
>alpha node: val <= alpha

http://utenti.lycos.it/gekochess/link/multiAlphaBeta.pdf

2.2. The Minimal Tree and Alpha-Beta
Definition 2 ( Minimal Tree)



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