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Subject: Re: Promotions in SEE?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:46:39 01/09/02

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On January 08, 2002 at 19:23:37, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 08, 2002 at 18:03:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2002 at 20:46:48, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>First of all, it may take more time. It's probably not important though.
>>>Secondly, I couldn't think of a simple enough way of doing it.
>>
>>I didn't do promotions in quiescent search/SEE. I just added it. These
>>are my test results:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>Warning: node count is different!
>>
>>Node count is for same depth only.
>>
>>             Old             New            Ratio
>>-----------------------------------------------------
>>Nodes:   1046622533      1057808269         101.07%
>>Time:        123966          133292         107.52%
>>Depth:           11.71           11.66       -0.05
>>Solved:          63              62
>>
>>At best, it's not going to make a lot of difference whether you
>>do it or not.
>>
>>This is tricky for me too. If I keep them, I'm going 7% slower
>>overall. On the other hand, I _know_ I will be seeing some stuff a ply
>>earlier.
>>
>>The question is now how often do I think it will happen where it matters.
>>
>>I have no idea.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Yes, it was stuff like this I was considering.
>
>Also, even if you don't do promotions i quiescensce, and don't want to assess
>promotions directly, you might still want to deal with promotions _during_ the
>capture sequence that you are SEE'ing, otherwise your SEE results will sometimes
>be incorrect. The question is (as you imply): Does it matter?
>
>/David

Another idea is to *not* go into quiescence search when a promotion is imminent,
but instead extend the search another ply.


Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com



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