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Subject: Re: killers, best replacement scheme.

Author: scott farrell

Date: 15:49:34 10/02/03

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On October 02, 2003 at 05:42:58, macaroni wrote:

>Hi, what sort of replacement schemes do people use with their killers? and how
>many killers is it best to have? I currently have one killer built in, which I
>replace whenever I get a beta cutoff caused by a move that isn't a capture. This
>certainly gives me some gain, but perhaps I can get more with 2-3 killers?
>Thanks for input.

I use 2, when replacing:
move 1 to 2
replace 1

I dont include captures as you noted.

I have a black and white array index as move from root. I needed the 2 arrays
because of nullmove muddles the killers.

Scott



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