Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:11:05 09/21/02
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On September 21, 2002 at 08:40:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 21, 2002 at 08:25:12, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On September 21, 2002 at 06:56:31, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>Wrong. >> >>Nope. >> >>>You think that the value of the forum is only to help the author and if it >>>cannot help him the forum is not of much use. >> >>Do I now? Interesting ;-). To be exact, I believe that most of the helpful >>advice posted here is worth very little elowise unless you're a novice >>programmer. That's my impression at least (aka. uninformed estimate). > > >I think that yor estimate is wrong here. >one idea that was posted by Bas Hamastra to do checks in the first plies of the >qsearch and I think it is productive for movei. > >This idea is not used in Crafty of today and Bob did not try it. > >Another idea by David Omid encouraged me to try R=3 in null move pruning and the >results seem to be better. I forgot to say that Vincent already said in the past that R=3 is best for him but I guessed that R=3 may be productive only for programs with more knowledge than movei in their evaluation and only after David Omid said that it was good for Genesis that has not a big evaluation I decided to try it on movei. Uri
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