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Subject: Re: New Crafty 19.12 Available for Download from Chessbase

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 03:55:36 04/06/04

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On April 06, 2004 at 00:28:50, Brian Katz wrote:

>Would someone be kind enough to mention what the differences between 19.12 and
>19.11 are?
>
>Thanks
>
>Brian Katz

19.12   fix to allocating split blocks that did not let all blocks get
        used, which would produce slow-downs on large parallel boxes
        (cpus > 8-16).  change to fail-high/fail-low window adjustment.
        I now use the old Cray Blitz approach ("Using time wisely -
        revisited", JICCA) where a fail-high (or low) now adjusts the
        root alpha or beta bound by 1 pawn on the first fail, another two
        pawns on the second failure, and finally relaxes the bound to
        +/- infinity on the third fail for the same move.  this speeds up
        searching many fail-high/fail-low conditions, although it will
        occasionally cause the search to take a bit longer.




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