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Subject: Re: Can we do counter-move reductions?

Author: rasjid chan

Date: 10:42:36 08/30/05

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It is strange I read this the first time, must be not popular.

Can we do an enhanced history heuristic by counting how often
B(from2,to2) refutes A(from1,to1) when move B causes a beta-cutoff?

short counter_cmh[64][64][64][64];
This seems a huge array! Is it OK? But it may be more reliable than history
alone.

If B is knight followed by A queen, such patterns may happen often in the
current chess tree and likely to be a "cutoff" pattern again and used for move
ordering. As other pieces could have changed positions, there may not be a
direct hashing.

Can we also do counter-move reduction instead of history reduction?
There is a sequence of 3 moves A, B, C where C causes a first-time-cutoff
and we increment the "first-time-fail-low" counter derived from A,B and use it
for reductions.

Thanks
Rasjid



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