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Subject: Re: A move to search 2nd... Keep in the trans table?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 00:09:31 07/22/04

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On July 21, 2004 at 16:55:07, Eric Oldre wrote:

>lets say you are searching a position with iterative deepening.
>at depths 3,4,5 it finds a best move of Qd3. then at depth 6
>the best move changes to c4.
>
>When you start searching to depth 7, you clearly would want the
>first move you search to be c4, and this shouldn't be a problem
>if your transposition tables are working right. Since the best
>move should be stored in it.
>
>however, a good move to try 2nd would be Qd3, but your transposition
>tables aren't going to let you know that, at least not in the implementations
>that I have normally heard about.

>I was thinking that one way to overcome this would be to keep 2 "best" moves
>in the trans table.

Tried it long time ago. I got a slow down of several percent. Beats me why that
is as the idea looks so natural.

My best,

Ed




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