Author: Dan Newman
Date: 12:31:45 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. > >Severi I don't see anything wrong with these numbers. I get 92.4% with nullmoves and 98.7% without on this position. But my program has hash tables. It also has a fairly complex (and heavily mistuned) eval. When I run it on all 300 WAC positions at 1s/posn I get much the same result (92 and 98). -Dan.
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