Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 12:19:42 04/24/01
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On April 23, 2001 at 23:19:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 23, 2001 at 11:33:52, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>On April 23, 2001 at 11:03:32, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> >>It is easy to check out where it goes wrong, by comparing the values with and >>without FP. Values are in my case mostly different when the capture is checking. >>Also in the endgame it is risky, when for instance a pawncapture brings the king >>out of the "square of the pawn". >> >>In my case it does not matter much, because you will get a cut anyway the next >>ply. It saves a call to ab/evaluate, that's about it. I can't see how that gives >>enourmous gains. And it doesn't in my case. >> >> >>Bas. > >What it does is cut the total q-search nodes by 1/2 at least. That is a pretty >significant savings... Not in my case, no. Skipping SEE losing captures cuts 50%. Then, if I want reasonably accurate scores, futility cuts another 15% or so. However I do not consider any checking capture as futile.
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