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Subject: Re: Killer / History

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:50:09 04/16/00

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On April 16, 2000 at 20:34:37, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>>
>>Yes. You can do variations on this theme. For example, you can use two killer
>>moves per ply,
>
>Yes, I heared some people are even using more ... :)

I've found that using more than 2 killer moves is useless. Actually, I've found
that using 2 is not significantly better than just using one. The difference is
a fraction of a percent. But using at least 1 is great.

>and you can change the values that you add to your history table.
>>I think most people like adding 2^depth, but you have to be careful of overflows
>>if you do this.
>
>Is that because if you searched deeper you probably get more reliable results
>and so moves should have more weight ?

Yes.
-Tom



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