Author: José Carlos
Date: 08:27:50 11/11/03
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On November 11, 2003 at 11:25:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 11, 2003 at 11:09:40, José Carlos wrote: > >>On November 11, 2003 at 10:52:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 11, 2003 at 10:42:10, José Carlos wrote: >>> >>>> So far, when I cutoff due to null move, I do BetaCutoffs++ but not >>>>BetaCutoffsAtFirst++ so my 100 * BCAF / BC statistic gets lowered. Is there an >>>>standard for this for I can compare with other people numbers? Should I count a >>>>null move cutoff as a beta cutoff at first? Should I not do BetaCutoffs++? >>>> >>>> José C. >>> >>>Don't do anything in that case. You only care about the ratio of >>>[cutoffs on first move] : [cutoffs on any but first move]. >>> >>>The higher that ratio the better. >> >> So you mean not to count null move cutoffs as cutoffs at all, right? >> >> José C. > > >Right. or you might count null-move searches done, and null-move searches >that failed high, if you want to know how effective null-move search is. But >it is clearly independent of the idea of base move ordering where the first move >should cause a cutoff if one is going to happen. Thanks, José C.
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