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Subject: Re: A notion about EGTB probes

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:44:23 04/16/04

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On April 16, 2004 at 22:37:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 16, 2004 at 16:40:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Why not probe memory-resident bitbase EGTB files for every non-pv node and
>>Nalimov (or other advanced EGTB) probes for every pv node?
>
>How do you know which is which, before the fact???

The node I search first will be the pv node 90+% of the time.

>>
>>If it is not a PV node, then we don't really care what the move to make is.  And
>>if we get a fail high on a bitbase probe, it will get researched as a PV node
>>anyway.
>>
>>It seems like it would cut EGTB probes to 1/30 or so of probing all the time,
>>and the probes would always be where they are needed the most.
>
>Searching the PV takes over 1/2 of the time for Crafty, in most cases.  Your
>savings would be far lower than 1/30.  Probably not even 1/2..

I had not thought about that.  It seems on the surface that there should be a
large savings since most nodes are not pv nodes.

>>Have others already tried this?



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