Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 06:52:51 01/24/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 15:45:13, Ernst Walet wrote: >I'm wondering what gives better results, conservative probing with 3-4-5 piece >tb's, or agressively probing without the 5 piece. The latter hardly slows down >the search due to the fact that the 30 MB of 3 and 4 piece tb's easely fit into >the cache (if large enough of course). What do you think, Dieter? My own experience is only from a subset of 5-men TBs. I have KPPKP, KRPKR, KRNKR and KRBKR. Accidently, I believe, that the former two are the most important. For the position tested by Dann (and by me with inferior hardware) aggressive probing seems to help, despite the fact, that the search speed in nodes/sec can get much less. The time to reach a certain depth will show a slightly different behaviour, because of cutoffs in the search tree due to TB hits. And even at the same depth, the analysis with probing during the whole search should be better (at least not worse) compared to the analysis with probing during only the upper parts of the search tree. You are right, with only 4-men, I get almost no decrease in search speed. And there were positions I tested, that were solved faster, with only 4-men. But I could not find a pattern. Sometimes also some luck is involved. You may probe many positions close to the leaves of the search tree, which the eval of the program will easily detect as won or lost. In other positions this may not be that easy for the eval (i.e. KRPKR without any special knowledge of this). -- Dieter
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