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Subject: Re: History Heuristic

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 19:26:21 07/05/04

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On July 05, 2004 at 21:59:38, Tor Lattimore wrote:

>Hi all.
>Is it a good idea to add capture moves to the history heuristic? It seems like
>it possibly might not be, but not sure if it makes a difference. Just as a side
>note, captures would never be put in killers because they get searched soon
>anyway yes?
>Cheers
>Tor
>and good luck to all WCCC entrants.

Hi Tor. I'm not sure about your first question. Currently, I update the history
heuristic on all fail-high moves. I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to if it's
a capture move. As to your second question, killers should definitely be
non-captures only. Andrew



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