On-line engine blitz tourney February

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Henk
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney February

Post by Henk »

My engine only works with pure alpha beta for search. This has been done for debugging. Debugging/ testing phase is not over yet. So if I participate, Skippers games might be ultra short but perhaps more positional play. But it is not Saturday yet. Maybe positional play can be fun too so I don't even know if I will change it.
Joost Buijs
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Re: On-line engine blitz tourney February

Post by Joost Buijs »

Henk wrote:My engine only works with pure alpha beta for search. This has been done for debugging. Debugging/ testing phase is not over yet. So if I participate, Skippers games might be ultra short but perhaps more positional play. But it is not Saturday yet. Maybe positional play can be fun too so I don't even know if I will change it.
There is nothing wrong with pure alpha beta, it should give you the same outcome as minimax or negamax but in a fraction of the time.