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Subject: Re: Null move and move ordering stats

Author: Ren Wu

Date: 15:44:48 12/20/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 18:31:41, Dan Newman wrote:

>On December 20, 2001 at 16:47:29, Ren Wu wrote:
>
>>On December 20, 2001 at 15:31:45, Dan Newman wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>What kind of move you search first in case you don't have the move from
>>hashtable?
>>
>>Ren.
>
>If I'm in the PV, I do an internal iterative deepening search and use
>that move.  If not I generate the captures, sort them with a SEE,
>and use the top one of those.
>
>-Dan.
>
>P.S.  I tried turning off my hash table and got 90.1% with nullmoves
>and 99% without.  The searches took quite a bit longer...

Thanks. Seems a good SEE is really important factor here.

See my another post
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?202825

Can you try enable hashtable, but disable SEE?

Ren.



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