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Subject: Re: Engine woes

Author: Nathan Thom

Date: 16:00:07 04/15/03

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On April 15, 2003 at 10:23:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 15, 2003 at 08:03:36, Nathan Thom wrote:
>
>>My engine is giving me headaches :) Its performing pretty badly against test
>>positions (even thought it can beat me!). I have concerns over the following
>>statistics:
>>
>>1. The PVS search success ratio seems extremely high, of 180k attempts, only 9
>>fail (ie value > alpha && value < beta).
>>
>>2. When writing to the hash table, of 50k writes 40k are lower bounds, 10k upper
>>bounds, 20 exact.
>>
>>Does anyone else have any statistics for what I should be getting, or any
>>suggestions where to look for errors???
>
>what position and depth did you test?

For these particular numbers i used

[D]4r1r1/bB4p1/8/2p1kPKn/n7/3R4/3P4/2B5 w

and searched to a depth of around 6 or 7 i think.



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