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Subject: Re: for Tord

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:28:56 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 06:22:02, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 05:54:48, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2004 at 05:10:37, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>And this is not the first time you give this advice!
>>>>
>>
>>>
>>>No, it is not the first, and probably not the last time.  :-)
>>>
>>
>>
>>Hi Tord,
>>would I speed up my engine considerably by optimizing GenerateMoves() ? :-)
>
>Hi Matthias!
>
>I feel that giving the same advice more than once in the same thread
>might be a bit too much.  :-)
>
>But on a somewhat related note, there is one little piece of information
>on your BigLion page which I have always found really weird:  You write
>that you store the pseudo-legal move list in your hash table.  I have
>never tried anything like this myself, but I find it hard to believe
>that it is really a good idea.  Doesn't this make your hash table
>entries insanely big?  Does it really give you a sufficiently big
>performance effect that it is worth the price?
>
>>BTW, I now evaluate internal nodes, but pruning is yet disasterous:
>>too many good moves depart with the trash.
>>I will keep on experimenting. Expect a balanced fight between
>>Gothmog and BigLion before the year 2015, if the rapture tarries.
>
>I think BigLion has a big potential, and that a balanced fight should
>be possible in the not very far future.  However, I am not sure this
>is the right time to experiment with new pruning tricks.  I have the
>impression that you still suffer from a few serious bugs in your search,
>and you should probably try to fix them before you make your search more
>complicated.
>
>Tord

I guess that you are right.
I suggest Matthias simply to start by investigating the positions when Biglion
fails in WAC to see if the reason is some bugs.

Uri



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