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Subject: Re: TSCP enhancements [Re: Short chess programs]

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 07:05:58 09/20/02

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On September 20, 2002 at 03:53:56, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On September 19, 2002 at 20:45:45, Ian Osgood wrote:
>
>[snip]
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>>6. Experiment with different history tables (I had never heard of indexing by
>>piece*destination until recently.)
>
>Me neither. What is it?
>
>Sargon

Index the history table by moving piece and color ( 12 ) and destination ( 64 )
of the move, instead of the source and destination of the move.  This decreases
the size from 4K to <1K entries, which is easier on the cache.  Surprisingly,
this has little effect on move ordering performance.  In fact, it improved the
node count of my program (better move ordering).

Ian



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