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Subject: Re: Schröder's new web page

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 09:31:01 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 12:15:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On December 28, 2002 at 11:18:58, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 2002 at 10:10:53, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>
>>>It seems Ed Schröder has added a bit more to his web page:
>>>
>>>http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#SEARCH
>>>
>>>I have the feeling that ES will be getting a lot of thank yous for quite awhile
>>>for his fine contributions to computer chess.
>>>
>>>Thanks again!
>>
>>It seems to me that there are two typos in the following code:
>
>it's not about the source code. It's about the idea.
>Any sort of pseudo code gets accepted then. Definitely
>by me.

I am talking about the pseudo code Ed published on his homepage (pseudo code is
still code). I don't understand your statement in this context.


>
>Of course do not forget that these reductions are very dangerous
>to use in combination with nullmove and that as Ed describes them
>they completely rape your hashtable. A depth stored as 'n depth left'
>might be in reality n+1. You need to add a bit and some code for
>transpositions to the hashtable in order to fix that.
>

My new variant of ABC uses depth reductions instead of extensions. So I am
looking at the difference between Ed's reductions and mine. I don't use
conventional null-move yet.

There is a doctoral thesis by Thomas Barth which describes how depth reductions
work fine with a hashtable. His work is from 1988.

Alessandro



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