Do not modify alpha in split()

Do not modify alpha in split()

When calling split or we immediately return because unable to
find available slaves, or we start searching on _all_ the moves
of the node or until a cut-off occurs, so that when returning
from split we immediately leave the moves loop.

Because of this we don't need to change alpha inside split() and
we can use a signature similar to search() so to better clarify
that split() is actually a search on the remaining node's moves.

No functional change with faked split.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>