Author: Mark Young
Date: 19:48:57 05/18/99
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On May 18, 1999 at 22:25:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >If there is any sort of logical reason for the choice other than: >"I will stop as soon as move 'x' looks best regardless of evaluation and time >remaining" I would accept it as a valid choice. For instance, it might use a >win/loss/draw statistic from a database or it might use an actual positional >calculation of some sort to arrive at a sensible move. These are valid reasons >for picking a move. The way that H7 picks a move when you ask it to hunt for a >best move is bad for my purposes. I need a valid pv so that I could actually >perform the needed sequence if called upon to do so. This is especially true >since at least 25% of test suite answers are just plain wrong and I want to find >the right answer (if such exists and can be found). > >If you just want to "score the epd suite" as quickly as possible, then the >method H7 has chosen is optimal. Everyone that has Hiarcs7 knows it stops when you run a epd with the BM, but what does this have to do with the positions I ran, and have run. I don't use the BM. So why is this topic even in this thread. It finds the correct move without the BM.
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