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Subject: Re: Attack Table Question

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 13:18:19 03/22/04

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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

I have some code for incremental attack tables if you want it.  However, it took
Tord 4 months to figure out :)  I don't use attack tables in Zappa; i wrote this
when i was considering switching to a piecelist based engine.

anthony




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