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Subject: Re: New stuff on Ed's page

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:32:08 12/30/02

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On December 29, 2002 at 19:35:52, Martin Giepmans wrote:

If you use nullmove don't use any of the reduction-2 stuff.
Ed isn't using nullmove. It is very dangerous to use.

I also concluded the red1 doesn't work too well for me.

I get 1-5% speedup out of it.

It basically only reduces the tree after for example from opening

e4 h5 qxh5 rxh5 d4 <reduction-1> <nullmove> (some moves and cutoff)

So my nullmove reduction factor becomes from R=3 to R=4 in such a case.

If i want to use R=4 i'll let my program know it by myself,
so i turned off reduction-1 for now. It's a feature however in diep people
can turn on when they want to.

>On December 29, 2002 at 19:05:51, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm
>>
>>Tony
>
>The formula for reductions 2b and 2c look strange:
>"alpha < score + threat + margin --> reduce depth ..."
>
>This would imply that a bigger threat gives more reductions ...
>Should be score - threat - margin?
>
>Martin



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