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Subject: Re: History Heuristic

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 06:32:16 03/17/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 09:21:43, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>Oh, I see. index is pointing at the highest value. I've tried that too!
>I have worked a lot with my history table...

yes index=FunctionOf(to,stm,depth);

There is no need to check other entries than the one being updated :)

>>It's a form of normalizing the table, if you scale you must scale everything
>>otherwise only the best entries gets cut down and not the bad ones.
>
>I really thought that you tried some scrambling technique here!
>It's maybe not be as bad as it sounds, the good moves will prove themself very
>quickly again. The random part shouldn't be too dominating though.

"scrambling", "random"?

One small problem with rescaling often is that a lot of entries might zero out
completely, that turns into pure random ordering.

I think a small improvement here is to seed with pcsq or similar, but use values
so small that the real history scores easily takes over.

-S.



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