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User923005
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Re: principle variation search

Post by User923005 » Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:28 am

My point was that most of the speed increase is due to the zero width searches being faster than normal width searches of standard alpha-beta.

It is possible that more speed increase is due to finding more cutoffs in this method of search. It was a seat of the pants estimate, and I could easily be wrong. The best way to find out for sure it to measure it yourself, and I also suspect that the answer may even vary from program to program.

ernest
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Re: principle variation search

Post by ernest » Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:13 am

nak3c wrote:principle variation
It's called principal variation

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