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Subject: Re: History heuristic variant

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:09:55 04/14/04

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On April 14, 2004 at 10:03:04, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>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?

Others have explained.

>Is this a wrong idea from the very beginning?

I don't think so. If only you could get the characteristics of the position (or
the move) in these 8 bits.

Tony

>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso



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