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Subject: Re: Couple of chess programming questions

Author: Jesper Antonsson

Date: 11:30:05 09/11/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 23:06:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 10, 2002 at 18:29:02, Jesper Antonsson wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2002 at 13:40:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>On September 10, 2002 at 09:26:14, Eli Liang wrote:
>>>>>(7) Dennis Breuker has a paper comparing 5 different transposition table
>>>>replacement schemes.  Has any else been able to validate his results that
>>>>replacement should be based on the number of nodes searched and not search
>>>>depth?
>>>
>>>Hard to say.  The issue will become hash entry size.  You can store "depth" in
>>>a byte.  You will need at least 4 (and really more) bytes for nodes searched.
>>>Your table will therefore be smaller, and _that_ effect was not measured.
>>
>>Just a simple thought: You can store the logarithm of nodes searched, i.e.
>>1024-2047 nodes make you store 10, 4096 => 12 and so on. Perhaps good enough,
>>and 5 or 6 bits should suffice.
>>
>>/Jesper
>
>
>The only downside is quantization errors.  IE if you store log2(nodes) then
>you collapse any value from 2^N to 2^(N+1)-1 into one value...

Obviously.

/Jesper



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