Author: Uri Blass
Date: 18:50:52 11/21/02
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On November 21, 2002 at 21:39:06, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 21, 2002 at 21:21:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 20, 2002 at 17:51:40, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >> >>'verified' nullmove, or in a different implementation but >>same algoritm, with just 1 ply reduction is nearly a fullwidth >>search. >> >>I did with a bigger reduction of course. that's also very >>costly compared to R=3. This was just an experiment carried >>out years ago when it was described in ICCA journal. Now >>we have same algoritm in a few lines diff algorithm. >> >>I do not see how Omid can just suffer 50% slowdown of his >>algorithm. Note he only publishes search depths not >>search times. That is wrong. >> >>You must publish search times. > >I do not see how you can suffer more than 50% slow down. >I think that you simply do not understand the algorithm. > >The algorithm does not do nearly full width search because after the first >reduction the search is normal null move pruning without verification. > >It did not work for movei or for sjeng but the difference is not as big as you >describe and I suspect that with some modification it may work. > >Uri I can add that at least for movei I did not use the exact implementation as I described in another post but I do not expect exact implementation to change a lot. Uri
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