Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:42:55 09/23/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 11:21:55, James Swafford wrote:
>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
Yes, escape is set when in check. Real_draft includes extensions.
Will
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