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Subject: Re: Cutoff Statistics

Author: Willie Wood

Date: 12:13:18 12/18/97

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On December 18, 1997 at 07:02:57, Roland Pfister wrote:

>In  the development/debug version of my program Patzer I have built in
>some statistics about cutoffs. I ran it on the Bratko-Kopec test
>with search depth 8. Here some results of the cutoff efficiency of move
>types:
>
>BK  null hash capt kil1 kil2 misc
> 2:  67   60   46   31   13   0
> 3:  79   61   35   45   12   0
> 4:  87   64   41   38   11   1
> 5:  76   62   44   25   10   0
> 6:  74   69   63   30    6   0
> 7:  78   61   39   36   13   0
> 8:  72   55   48   45   13   0
> 9:  79   63   40   24    9   0
>10:  80   60   45   34   18   0
>11:  75   68   45   28    9   0
>12:  72   66   48   40   18   0
>
>that means e.g. in Bratko-Kopec #12  72% of all null moves produced
>a cutoff, 66% of all hashmoves produced a cutoff etc.
>
>the statistics was done in the normal search not quiescense and my
>move ordering/generation is from left to right ( nullmove first,
>hash move, good captures, first killer, second killer, up to 5
>history moves, rest ).
>
>Has anyone else statistics about cutoffs or will produce them?


That's pretty interesting.  Can you tell me what's the difference
bewteen killer 1 and 2, and do you allow captures in the killers?

WW



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