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Subject: Re: ICC Green List - Jul 10

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:36:19 07/10/00

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On July 10, 2000 at 14:39:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>>PostModernist   2414   2444  |   2404    +3  |   45%    26    687    178
>>Falke           2453   2438  |   2447    +2  |   64%     3     53     14
>>QueenMaxima     2355   2385  |   2369    -5  |   73%    51   1153    122
>>Hossa           2347   2380  |   2300   +15  |   51%    71   1831    171
>>Sjeng           2257   2298  |   2139   +39  |   76%    20    166      0
>
>That's a pretty big leap up.  Do you have an explanation for a 40 point rise?

I fixed positional learning, finetuned the eval, added new endgame and
material inequality code, made the search less risky, added some root-
processing, evaluation caches for standard chess, optimized the movegenerator
and do not allow different types of eval during a single search to keep the
scores more consistent. I now use an automatically generated opening book out
of a 200Mb PGN database, immediately switch moves on a fail-high and try
to do something sensefull on a fail-low.

According to some highly scientific analysis on the WinBoard forum, the
result is a program that plays significantly worse than TSCP.

Most of these improvements are also in the version I submitted for BOTC.

--
GCP



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