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Subject: Re: More SEE results

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 07:36:14 08/15/04

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This was wrongly posted as a reply -- must not be awake yet.
If the moderator reads this, can he either delete it or
move it off to another thread. Thanks.

On August 15, 2004 at 10:34:10, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>Okay I'll do one more test of SEE after this and then I'm done
>with formal SEE testing, though I don't know if I can include it
>without some depth condition. Seems to me it only works for
>deep searches so perhaps I should just use it if depth > 6 or
>something.
>
>Test tests 300 positions with no see, see >= 0, delta/futility prune,
>and both. There is slightly more depth with see>=0 (10.19 vs. 10.01.)
>
>My next test will be to use see to sort capture moves by adding
>the see score to the mvv/lva score. Likewise, I will not recalculate
>the see score (since it was already calculated during the scoring
>of the move within the addmove routine) when I use it in the quiescence.
>
>This is why my see use within move sorting was not added optimally.
>I was recalculating see in a 2nd place. Two calls to see for the same
>position -- I'll make the new run for SEESORT tonight.
>
>Since each additional item to test expands the total test time
>(with NOSEE, SEEQUIESCE, DELTAPRUNE, SEEQUIESCE+SEEDELTA, I have
>to test 4 things but adding SEESORT I'll have to test SEEQUIESCE+SEESORT
>DELTAPRUNE+SEESORT, SEEQUIESCE+SEEDELTA+SEESORT.) So at least only
>3 to test tonight instead of 4. Each run is about 2 hours (7100 seconds
>4th column below) at 30 seconds per position.
>
>Stuart
>
>$ ./qaNbatch
>HERALD ga nosee30300.log 30 300
>**** 10.01/35.43 86% 259/300 7185.97 1762949376 5876498/24/245332 0/0/103274328/
>0/0/0
>HERALD ga -DSEEQUIESCE seequiesce30300.log 30 300
>**** 10.19/31.80 87% 261/300 7153.01 1574976128 5249920/24/220184 0/0/51018488/0
>/0/0
>HERALD ga -DDELTAPRUNE seedelta30300.log 30 300
>**** 10.00/35.40 86% 259/300 7188.23 1749075840 5830253/24/243325 0/0/102505680/
>0/0/0
>HERALD ga -DSEEQUIESCE -DDELTAPRUNE seeboth.log 30 300
>**** 10.19/31.81 87% 261/300 7153.72 1575198848 5250663/24/220193 0/0/51030984/0
>/0/0



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