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Subject: Re: Doesn't appear to work for me (full data)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 11:35:54 11/21/02

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On November 21, 2002 at 14:33:28, Tony Werten wrote:

>On November 20, 2002 at 19:09:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On November 20, 2002 at 19:02:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On November 20, 2002 at 18:54:30, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Could you please compare (Adptv + small quiesc) vs (Vrfd +small quiesc) ?
>>>
>>>When I have more time.
>>>
>>>If you want more data, I expect others will post results
>>>from their programs as well. Maybe those are more encouraging...
>>>
>>>>BTW, please allocate more time for each position. The deeper you go, the >greater will be the advantage of verified null-move (see Figure 4 of my
>>>>article).
>>>
>>>Compared to R=2! But it scales inferior to R=3. So I don't expect
>>>more time to give it an advantage compared to Heinz Adaptive Nullmove.
>>>
>>>>Or you might want to conduct a test to a fixed depth of 10 plies, and then
>>>>compare the total node count and number of solved positions.
>>>
>>>Fixed depth tests are nonsense. I play games with a clock, not with
>>>a fixed amount of plies.
>>>
>>
>>One comparison method once I thought of, was letting each algorithm search as
>>much as it wants until it solves the position. Then compare the total node
>>counts of different algorithms. While this is a good practical test, I think the
>>academics will still appreciate the classical fixed depth comparisons...!
>
>The academics are wrong here. Think about it.
>
>Your program finds the wrong move twice as fast, is that an improvement ?
>Your program finds the right move twice as slow as it found the wrong move
>before, is that worse ?

In addition, the academic way would be that an algoritm that prunes all moves
and returns 0 is an improvement.

>
>Tony
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>--
>>>GCP



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