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Subject: Re: late move reductions (and another question)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 23:14:56 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 16:05:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I am still using my old 12-bit history index <to><from> to index into these new
>values.  I also still maintain one for white and one for black.  I once tried a
>17 bit index <piece><to><from> but it offered no improvement to the basic
>history heuristic, but I have not tested that with this reduction stuff.
>
>Any ideas what others are doing here?  I can think of several possibilities:
>
><piece><to>
>
><piece><from>
>
><to><from> (I am doing this now)
>
><piece><to><from>
>
>to name at least 4.  First two seem too simplistic.  Last one turns the history
>tables into pretty good sized arrays (2^17 for white, ditto for black).
>

It does only once if you use this to index a second table which returns an index
only for actual legal moves.

Tony

>Note that I am essentially factoring in wtm already since I have two separate
>sets of history tables for black and white.





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