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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.18 confusion

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:01:22 01/21/05

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On January 21, 2005 at 12:20:55, Dave Kuntzsch wrote:

>Main.c contradicts Peter Skinner's statement that the only change is that EGTBs
>are handled properly. Here is the text of the updates included:
>
> *   19.18   HashProbe() no longer adjusts alpha/beta bounds if the entry is   *
> *           not good enough to terminate the search here.  this has helped    *
> *           speed things up (reduced size of tree) over many test positions   *
> *           so either it was buggy or not worthwhile.  regardless, it is now  *
> *           'gone'.                                                           *
> *                                                                             *
> *   19.19   connected passed pawns now scored as a simple pair of pawns that  *
> *           are better as they are advanced, the old connected passed pawns   *
> *           on the 6th rank special code has been removed.                    *
> *                                                                             *
> *******************************************************************************
>
>What is that 19.19 business? And there is no Crafty.c file anymore that allows
>compiling by just pointing to that. Anyone know what's what?
>
>Dave

I will look to see what is up as there is no 19.19 version I know about.  :)
The hash table change is basically inconsequential...





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