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Subject: Re: How do I improve test suites results?

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 07:48:30 03/16/03

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On March 16, 2003 at 08:18:35, Joel wrote:

>Hey Albert,
>
>I have an Athlon XP 2100+ and an engine which is quite weak - around about the
>strength of the 60-70th ranked engines in the WBEC-Ridderker. See
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
>
>Currently if I let my engine have a 5 second think, I get 264/300 answers
>correct.
>
>My engine is no speed demon - just a simple alpha beta search (no forward
>pruning) called with an aspiration window. I have worked a lot on my move
>ordering, so my branching factor is pretty close to optimal.
>
>Seems to me you have some bugs. The ones I found which really pulled down my
>scores were the ones to do with the quiescent search.
>
>Other than checking closely for bugs, the easiest way I found (as Uri mentioned)
>to improve your score is some check extensions.
>
>So long as you are hitting a reasonable depth (6-8 in complex positions, 10+ in
>the endgame ones) in most of the positions, you should definately be solving at
>least 240).
>
>Regards,
>Joel



Hi Joel,
on +1800 GHz and 5 sec, I also hit (only) 263/300 (and mostly 100 nps only).
My BigLion is the buggy engine (http://www.gemuh.de).
/Matthias.











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