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Subject: Re: Null move and move ordering stats

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 09:17:10 12/20/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 07:20:38, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>I don't want to sound unfriendly, but I think you forget to increase
>>moves_searched in your search. 98.9% is impossible without hashtables. (even
>>with, it's doubtfull) You must have a perfect SEE to get this. Even then, the
>>amount of noncapturemoves that are best is higher than 1.1%
>
>Not at all, you don't sound unfriendly ;) I increase moves_searched every time I
>make a legal move and search it. Futile and illegal moves are not counted as
>they are not searched. The 99% was without nullmoves. 96% is with nullmoves
>(after 1.e4 e5 2.d4 d5). If I do a 9 ply search from initial position I get
>94.2% with nullmoves and 97.7% without.

An aha-erlebnis. Do you happen to do a material only evaluation ?

Tony

>
>Severi



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