Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:05:50 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 09:25:09, James Swafford wrote:
>
>I recently switched from R=2 to R=3 in Prophet. It looked
>very promising at first... I got my first two wins against
>Arasan on ICC. However, after watching more games, it seems
>a bit too aggressive. Prophet completely self destructed
>against Tinker almost right out of the opening.
>
>I'll have to experiment a bit, but I'll probably settle on
>some R=2/3 compromise.
>
>How many of you use R=2? R=3? If you do R=2/3, what kind
>of algorithm do you use to decide? I used one proposed by
>(I think) Vincent in Tristram: don't allow R=3 twice in a
>row (or three times in a row?), and it seemed to work pretty
>good.
>
>--
>James
Sounds like significant progress. fwiw, here's what I do:
if (!last_was_null && allow_null && !escape && real_draft >= 1 && !in_pv) {
if (real_draft>4) current_reduction = 3;
else current_reduction = 2;
}
Allow_null is set by game stage and whether the king is being closely attacked
without check.
Will
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