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Subject: Re: testing with crafty !!

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 13:19:18 06/22/00

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On June 22, 2000 at 13:59:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Nope.  even on wrong predictions there are _many_ transpositions that make the
>incorrect pondering entries work.  IE I ponder expecting you to play Nf3, but
>you play e3 instead.  However, when I expected you to play Nf3, I discovered
>that your next move would be e3.  Searching NF3/e3 in that order will then
>result in transpositions when you try e3 first, as e3/Nf3 is still the same
>thing.

Yes, but you would only discover the move e3 after it's made and then you're
using time in transistion from Nf3 to e3 or am I missing something? Unless you
happened to ponder e3 intensively before switching to Nf3, but since you
overwrite old data then...

>Also I know the difference between old positions and new positions, and I always
>choose to overwrite positions from an old search before I overwrite something
>from the current search.

Wouldn't squeezing new data in before overwriting old data be better just in
case it's usable. Or could that cause problems?

Best wishes...
Mogens



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