Author: James Swafford
Date: 08:21:55 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 11:05:50, Will Singleton wrote:
>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
Thanks for the response. What is real_draft? Is that ignoring
extensions? And what is escape? Escape from check?
--
James
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