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Subject: Small changes to recap and possible improvement

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 14:23:25 01/25/01

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>recapture is the most interesting case.  It actually appears that removing
>this _completely_ gave the best score, which is surprising since
>win at chess is a tactical suite.  Lowering this extension obviously
>speeds up the overall search.  I currently use .75 here as well.
>
>The most interesting thing is the recapture extension.  I have used it forever,
>and took the idea from Cray Blitz since I used it there as well.  I am not yet
>sure why it actually hurts since it seems (to me) to be a logical idea.  I am
>going to test this more, just for my own interest.

That test was very interesting, thank you.

I changed a small part in the recap routine of crafty to what my program
(crazyhouse only not normal chess) does, and maybe it works well in Crafty too.
On my k6/400 at st 10 the modified crafty got 290/300 positions right at WAC
compared to 288. This of course doesn't mean much at all.

Your test (outputing solution time) seemed but more precise , so maybe you can
give me instructions on how to run it. Or would you be willing to test my
modifications if I mail them to you ? Best would be if someone was willing to
run 500 test games with both versions :).

Regards,

Georg v. Zimmermann



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