Minor enhancement to ProbeTTable ()

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From: Chua Kong Sian
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 07:20

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Here is a minor improvement to ProbeTTable().  There is a line which
goes like this.

    *alpha = ptbl->score - 1;

Change this to

    *alpha = ptbl->score;

This will yield correct beta cuts which might otherwise be overlooked in
the original code.  This will reduce the no. of nodes searched by a few
percent.

Kong Sian

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Subject: Minor enhancement to ProbeTTable ()
Date: 23 Mar 1994 07:20:38 GMT
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