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Subject: Re: evaluation tuning tricks

Author: Fabien Letouzey

Date: 06:55:59 03/17/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 09:52:27, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 17, 2004 at 04:58:06, Peter Alloysius wrote:
>
>>what are tricks for evaluation tuning so that it could
>>search less nodes?
>
>An easy way to reduce your tree size enormously is to evaluate all
>positions to the value 0.  You will get beta cutoffs at the first move
>everywhere in the tree, therefore the tree will be extremely small.  Your
>move ordering will always be perfect, and the simple evaluation function
>will certainly boost your nodes/second count.  :-)
>
>Seriously, I don't think tuning the evaluation is the right way to go
>in order to reduce the tree size.  You should rather concentrate on
>making the evaluation function as accurate as possible, and look for
>improvements in your search and move ordering when trying to reduce the
>size of your tree.
>
>Tord

No offense Tord, but I don't understand  why programmers think the move ordering
is "perfect" if a fail-high move is found first 100% of the time.  The size of
subtrees is a very important matter in programs with many extensions/reductions.

Fabien.




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