Negascout questions

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Don
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Re: Negascout questions

Post by Don »

MattieShoes wrote:Okay, I think I'm all straightened out now :-) My weird implementation when I was toying with it was causing me to think of the tree wrong :-)

Besides, it looks like I have bigger problems. I was just restructuring some big things in my program and it announced 1. Nc3#

:-(
It probably saw that 1. Nc3 is the best move and leads to a mate. It just got a little eager!
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Re: Negascout questions

Post by MattieShoes »

Heh, I fixed that problem but I don't remember offhand what it was. It's played several hundred games without crashing or doing weird stuff like that now. I've moved on to breaking opening book code! :-)