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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:36:19 03/02/06

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On March 02, 2006 at 02:14:56, Tony Werten wrote:

>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.
>

Not sure I follow???  "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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