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Subject: Re: Attack Table Question

Author: Bruce Cleaver

Date: 05:19:25 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 04:38:41, Daniel Shawul wrote:

>On March 22, 2004 at 04:10:49, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 2004 at 03:40:57, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>I have decided to use attack tables. I just did
>>>a rough implementation of it at the beginning of the eval
>>>according to Ed's paper. The problem is the thing dropped the nodecount
>>>by almost 40% .  Initial position nodecount was 800000 and now it is 500000.
>>>Do incremental move attack tables help? And how do i update the table? It seems
>>>very difficult to update a sliding move and other special cases.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>daniel
>>
>>Why not make a mixed approach ... the difficult moves not incrementally and the
>>easy moves incrementally
>what do you mean? It is the table that is updated not the moves?



I think he means udate the attack tables inrementally when it is easy to do so,
and calculate them from scratch when you must (AS IN THE CASE OF SOME SLIDERS).



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