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Subject: Re: History Heuristic

Author: Andrew Dados

Date: 18:48:13 08/28/00

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On August 28, 2000 at 21:44:24, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On August 28, 2000 at 19:32:05, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>>I have been reading about the History Heuristic and have seen pro's and con's
>>about it.
>>
>>I plan on implementing it to see what happens.  This heuristic is related to
>>killer moves and uses the from and to squares in a 64 x 64 array to maintain
>>history information when moves are bestmoves or cutoffs.  Each entry has 2 to
>>the depth power added to it when a bestmove or cutoff is found.
>>
>>Would you recommend the History Heuristic, and has anything changed for the
>>better with the method described above?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Larry.
>
>
>
>For what it's worth, I don't use it.
>
>
>    Christophe

No commercial programmer I know of ever admitted to use history heuristics.
interesting...

-Andrew-



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