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Subject: Re: See'ing makes my program blind ?

Author: GeoffW

Date: 06:11:54 10/18/04

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Hi Richard

Thanks for the response

>Depends on the type of quiescense search you have: Lean and mean (like Crafty),
>or more extensive (like many others). The more precise the score returned from
>your quiescense search, the more errors in it will be bothering you (as you will
>not have the additional plies of regular search).

I think lean, mean and dense would be an accurate description of my qsearch :-)


>
>This looks wrong to me, even with a small qsearch. I assume you have the eval
>score anyway, so better to me looks something like
>evalscore+seescore+margin<alpha
>Margin is needed to compensate for the changes of the evaluation by performing
>the move.
>I'm not doing this in the Baron though.

Yes looks like it needs a margin adding. The question then is what value is
correct? As I mentioned in my other reply, I seem to need a far too large a
value from initial experiments.

Incidentally, The Baron was one of the 8 test programs I was using for my SEE
experiments. Baron was scoring about 70% against my program and beat all the
other 7 programs in my Arena gauntlet test tourney.

  Geoff









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