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Subject: Why do you add 2^depth?

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 13:13:31 08/29/00

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Hi!

>I plan on implementing it to see what happens.  This heuristic is related to
>killer moves and uses the from and to squares in a 64 x 64 array to maintain
>history information when moves are bestmoves or cutoffs.  Each entry has 2 to
>the depth power added to it when a bestmove or cutoff is found.


Why do you add a value depending on depth (2^depth)? Why not just increment by
1? Just asking because I'm new to chess programming techniques and I'm starting
to program my own creature...

Severi

• Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Robert Hyatt 10:02:11 08/30/00
  • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Severi Salminen 11:50:59 08/30/00
• Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Larry Griffiths 13:51:12 08/29/00
  • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Bo Persson 14:17:55 08/29/00
    • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Severi Salminen 02:41:01 08/30/00
      • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Bruce Moreland 10:36:54 08/31/00
        • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Larry Griffiths 16:31:02 09/01/00
        • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Dave Gomboc 07:21:13 09/01/00
          • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Bruce Moreland 02:09:50 09/03/00
          • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Robert Hyatt 06:05:25 09/02/00
      • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Bo Persson 11:12:49 08/30/00
        • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Severi Salminen 11:59:52 08/30/00
          • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Robert Hyatt 07:47:21 08/31/00
          • Re: Why do you add 2^depth? Carlos del Cacho 14:03:05 08/30/00

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