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Article #4530CHESS
From: Chuck McClelland
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 04:02
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 04:02
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In article <9503210410.AA24368@aba.nsrc.nus.sg>, kongsian@nsrc.nus.SG (Kong Sian) says: > >> >> BTW, yesterday I played around with the part of search.c where the >> history and killr are saved. My preliminary conclusion is if we save >> them only when (best > beta) it saves 30% less redundant moves and the >> program plays better. Of course I removed killr3 and Swag3. I can't >> play with it again for the next 3 weeks so you guys might want to test >> that idea. >> >> Johanes Suhardjo (johanes@farida.cc.nd.edu) > >I've played around with this, i.e. not keeping the move as a >killer unless best > beta. On a few positions, the newer approach >tends to show about 5-10% improvement. This looks like a good thing, >so it will go into pl75. > >Regards. > >-- >Chua Kong Sian <kongsian@nsrc.nus.sg> >National Supercomputing Research Centre >Singapore PEOPLE FROM SINGAPORE SHOULD BE FLOGGED!!!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,fb62cff6dea1bf09 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-24 20:02:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be!reks.uia.ac.be!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be! Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!news.brandonu.ca!news.brandonu.ca!nntp Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: CHESS Message-ID: <1995Mar24.220217.136@news.brandonu.ca> From: $mcclellandd@brandonu.ca (Chuck McClelland) Date: 24 Mar 95 22:02:16 CST References: <9503161507.AA24739@rice-chex> <9503210410.AA24368@aba.nsrc.nus.sg> Organization: Brandon University Nntp-Posting-Host: pc00381.pcs.brandonu.ca X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 Lines: 24