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Subject: Re: Schröder's new web page

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 09:43:05 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 12:31:01, Alessandro Damiani wrote:

>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.

I think Ed was one of the last professionals to switch to nullmove. That means
there might be some difficulties. You just have to test.

Tony

>
>Alessandro



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