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Subject: Re: Rebel Century Last Minute improvements

Author: leonid

Date: 06:19:01 09/28/99

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On September 27, 1999 at 21:54:52, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On September 27, 1999 at 19:28:05, leonid wrote:
>
>>On September 27, 1999 at 04:23:24, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Ed,
>>>
>>>>From one thing came another, I had a critical look at move ordering again,
>>>>made some changes, did intensive testing and there it was: 10-15% faster in
>>>>the end-game and 25-30% faster in the middle-game.
>>>
>>>Congratulations. I too notice that small changes can have large consequences.
>>>However in some positions system a is better and in some system b is better.
>>>What exactly did you change? Just avoiding playing HOOGSTENS moves?
>>>
>>>>After 18 years wrestling, fiddling and twiddling with move-ordering this is
>>>>remarkable as I expected move-ordering was close to perfect in Rebel. I wonder
>>>>how much improvement there is still left in move-ordering.
>>>
>>>I too. Maybe for positions near the root use ETC and sort accordingly? So play
>>>each move, look if the resulting position is in the hashtable. If no cutoff is
>>>possible, you could improve sorting failsoftvalues. This is something I am
>>>planning.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>What in the passage over signify "ETC" ?
>>It is interesting for me since my move-ordering is very bad.
>>Leonid.
>
>Enhanced Transposition Cutoffs.  You can find a paper at
>http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan, click on Publications, click on Artificial
>Intelligence, and scan backwards from 1999 (it's not too old.)
>

>Dave

Thanks very much for response! Reading looks very nice and attractive. Go
there.

Leonid.



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