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Subject: Re: late move reductions

Author: Dezhi Zhao

Date: 21:48:59 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 15:51:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>I increment the fail high count by 100 each time a move fails high.  I also
>increment the tried count by 1 at the same time.  Any time another move fails
>high, and this move was tried but did not, its tried count gets incremented,
>which lowers the "failed high percentage" significantly...
>
>sort of:
>
>if failed_high(x)
>   x.count++
>   x.fh+=100
>
>if failed_high (y) (later)
>   y.count++
>   y.fh+=100
>   if (tried(x)) x.count++
>
>Hope that makes what I am doing clearer, whether it is good or bad is not
>certain yet...
>
>


why not keep it simple?!

Suppose x is any move we just searched.

x.count++
if failed_high(x)
   x.fh+=100




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