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Subject: Re: About history and aging it

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 15:12:45 03/17/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 16:14:40, Mikael Bäckman wrote:

>I used 90 seconds per position as I didn't know how deep I could search without
>spending days on this... First I ran a test without historytables, to get a
>depth to compare the other tests to. Most of the depths were completed in 20-60
>seconds. Perhaps a bit shallow, but it gives an idea of the performance.

I'd prefer fewer positions and deeper searching.
The global table only suffers a mild saturation in a shallow search, to really
see the effect it must saturate badly and that takes a longer search ( > 100M
nodes.

>I use a side-piece-to historytable or history[side][piece][to] and I use at most
>8 history moves at a node. After that I try the moves in the order they are
>generated.
>
>
>Test1 = No History
>Test2 = History
>Test3 = History - root aging
>Test4 = History - age as soon as a history score gets larger than 10000.

10000 didn't work for me. I think it is too aggressive, you 'age' the table 10
times a second at this rate. Try with a larger number like 65000, that's about
once a second.

You don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater :)

-S.



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