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Subject: History heuristic variant

Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso

Date: 07:03:04 04/14/04


Hi,
I've been playing with the following history heurist variant:
Along with the PieceType-From-To formulation I added 8 bits that correspond to
the rightmost 8 bits of the hashkey.
So the new index to the history table is as follows:
HashKey-PieceType-From-To
HashKey is only 8 bits as said before. The idea is to try to match as much as
possible the moves that failed high with the 'true' posições where that happened
since in the classic hitory heuristic aproach we have little or nothing that
says that those history moves found at the current node where previously stored
in the exact same position as the current one. In other words history moves
don't mean they came from the same position. It is exactly this I'm trying to
avoid.
However when I tryed this idea it failed miserably with much higher node counts.
My question is why did this failed?
Is this a wrong idea from the very beginning?

Best regards,
Alvaro Cardoso



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