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Subject: Re: Attack Table Question

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 13:33:05 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 08:19:25, Bruce Cleaver wrote:

>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).

Yes that's what I meant



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