Author: Tony Werten
Date: 08:01:30 10/09/00
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On October 09, 2000 at 09:20:08, Steve Maughan wrote: >Hi Tony, > >>sorry I'm not a cook. What is a vanilla A/B ? Does this mean you start with -oo >>and + oo ? That would explain somethings. > >Aha 'vanilla' is a British expression for 'plain' as in the ice-cream! No I'm >not using +/- inf. > >>When you're doing the nullmove do you use R=2 ? ( That means you're doing >>value=-research(dept-3,-b,-a) > >R=2 > >>Did you make sure your killers aren't captures ? > >They are not double counted - is that what you mean? - but they can be captures. You should make sure they're not ( when adding them to the killer list ) But that shouldn't make that much difference. > >It does puzzle me. I guess it could be simply that my program is young and I >need to be more selective - but then Crafty isn't that selective. Opening requires specific knowledge ( not selectivity) . Add "doe not block your d and e pawns with a bishop" and you'll have a killer. "Do not leave your (light) pieces on the initial positions" is another one. >What does >XiniX do from the initial position? I'll have a look when I get home. I'm quite sure I only get 0 secs if I leave my openingbook on. Tony > >Regards, > >Steve
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