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Subject: Re: How to stop repeated lines

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:52:03 09/26/01

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On September 26, 2001 at 17:47:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 26, 2001 at 14:27:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On September 26, 2001 at 14:17:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I guess that another possible easy way for beginners is random changes in the
>>>evaluation by not more than 5%.
>>>If you change the value of the pawn from 1 to +1.05 the program may have a good
>>>chance to play a different move and the game is not going to be the same.
>>
>>The problem of this is that it may make the search instable.
>>
>>Georg v. Zimmerman had a nice trick here: before starting the search,
>>change the piece-squares a bit randomly. It gives the same effect but
>>is much more stable.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>That also means you can't keep the transposition table scores from the previous
>search or you will have _lots_ of debugging fun.

I think that it is better simply to do it not before every search but only
before every game so you do not have this problem.

Uri



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