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Subject: Re: Small changes to recap and possible improvement

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:08:23 01/25/01

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On January 25, 2001 at 17:23:25, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>
>>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


I can certainly test if you can simply send a complete "search.c" file for
me to replace mine by.




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