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Subject: Re: Quantifying the benefits of fractional extensions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:22:17 01/13/01

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On January 14, 2001 at 00:05:08, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 13, 2001 at 17:19:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2001 at 17:13:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I just added code to my program to handle fractional extensions
>>>and recapture extensions.
>>>
>>>My problem now is: how do I test & tune these? I did what I
>>>normally do and ran it through WAC. It did worse. Probably not
>>>so surprising as they are nearly all rather simple tactical
>>>positions, so extending more (on checks...not so much on
>>>recaptures) is nearly always a win.
>>>
>>>Does anybody here have a testcase? Maybe a set of positions
>>>where it _really_ matters how you do your extensions?
>>>
>>>If you added frac. extensions you your program, what made you
>>>decide to do so?
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>
>>Do as I did.  Make the extension amount something you can set via command.
>>Then run a potload of tests.  I ran WAC with all the extensions set to
>>values between .5 and 1.0, in increments of .25.  That is 3 cases for
>>each extension and I varied 4 different extensions.  81 tests and you then
>>look at which ones needed the fewest total nodes to solve _all_ the test
>>positions...
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>So Crafty is cooked for WAC!? ;)
>
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>    Christophe


:)

actually not, as I used a lot of other positions as well (IE I used some of
the "crafty goes deep" positions that were not tactical at all....)



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