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Subject: Re: Repitition detection

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:01:24 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 13:13:39, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On December 27, 2002 at 21:03:24, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Ugh! Talk about destroying a nice run time behaviour. Using a 4K hash and a
>>rehashing scheme uould get you a mean almost identical to one. The algorithm you
>>describe would probably have a mean close to one also, but the standard
>>deviation will be horiible to behold. But the missed probe behaviour will be
>>real bad. Iterating over the move list raises the cost of an error linearly, or
>>very nearly so. Real stupid. There is no excuse whatsoever to use that
>>algorithm.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>Thanks for the hint. In some endgame positions i got up to 20% collisions. In
>openings or early middlegame < 1%-4%. So about 5% in avarage.
>
>Before i used the even more stupid approach iterating back over the move list,
>comparing zobrist keys, first one 4 ply before and then in 2 ply decrements
>until there are reversible moves. So the 4KB table was a nice improvement for
>me.

How much faster do you get from not using the more stupid approach?

I call every improvement that is less than being 5% faster a small improvement.

Uri



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