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Subject: Re: Tree reduced by 10% now

Author: Artem Pyatakov

Date: 11:16:22 04/01/04

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On April 01, 2004 at 13:11:14, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>Would care to you elaborate a little? What do you mean by the most 'pouplar'
>move or how is your method different than just having 4 killer moves?
>
>Pallav

Pallav,

Good to know somebody in this forum still cares about computer chess programming
and little advances in the search :-)

So to elaborate: For each of the killer moves on the ply, I store not only the
killer move itself but how often that killer move has been encountered at this
ply. If a killer move I have not seen yet comes up, I add it to the array of
killers. If this array is full, I look for the killer move that has been the
least frequent in the past and overwrite it with my current killer move. This is
actually very similar to a merge between the history heuristic and the killer
move heuristic. Make sense?

By the way, a little update is that with 10 moves it actually does do better
(the result indicating otherwise was an aberration) - 10% less nodes than the
initial 2 killer move heuristics.

Artem



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