Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 02:38:35 11/29/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 19:35:17, Scott Gasch wrote: >On November 28, 2000 at 14:06:27, Andrew Williams wrote: >> >>PostModernist Monsoon >>1 145 45 >>2 214 621 >>3 864 3725 >>4 3330 14146 >>5 14057 38694 >>6 38838 183449 >>7 120729 598020 >>8 294806 1286875 >> >>This is with all my normal extensions on. > >This idea of 2 sets of killers -- one from this ply and one from last time side >to move moved is an interesting one. Also I thought that a seperate history >table for each color was a cool idea. > >Are you doing internal iterative deepening in PM? Monsoon does not do that yet Nope. Not tried this yet. >nor does it use a SEE to decide which captures are really "winning". I think >the next thing I implement is going to be a SEE so that I can improve capture >sorting in the search and qsearch. It seems like you are still an order of >magnitude better than monsoon in tree size, though. I wonder if I am doing >something wrong or your are doing something right or both. If your nullmove R=2 >or 3? > >Scott I think I wasn't clear. I use either 3 or 2 based on depth remaining and pieces on the board. I originally borrowed this from Ernst Heinz's book, but I've fiddled about with it a bit since. Andrew
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