Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:53:03 04/14/04
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On April 14, 2004 at 06:10:55, Tord Romstad wrote:
>On April 14, 2004 at 05:48:07, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2004 at 05:38:17, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>On April 14, 2004 at 05:32:37, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>>
>>>>>So my next question is, how do you normally populate a hash table with PV nodes,
>>>>>since we only get edge values during the search? Do I need to follow the pv
>>>>>from hash to hash with a makemove for each succeeding pv node?
>>>>>{ICK}
>>>>
>>>>In addition to storing the move that gets a fail high, you could also store the
>>>>bestmove (i.e. score with highest value below alpha) in the hashtable. This only
>>>>makes some sense with fail soft. With fail hard (as TSCP is) you will (almost)
>>>>always get alpha as best value so the chosen move will be random.
>>>>
>>>>That way you will be able to construct an estimation of the pv, which will
>>>>improve with each iteration.
>>>
>>>Does this really work for you? I once tried it, and the results were ugly. In
>>>my experience, it is never a good idea to store a best move except when failing
>>>high.
>>>
>>>Tord
>>
>>This is a tiny but clear improvement for Rybka, and a huge improvement in PV
>>quality.
>
>Interesting. It is probably time to experiment with this again.
>
>>How good is your fail-soft?
>
>It's probably awful. I must admit that I have never understood most of the
>problems people talk about regarding fail-soft, and I have never given
>much thought to the matter.
>
>What are the characteristics of a good fail-soft? Is there an easy way
>to measure it?
The better the fail-soft, the fewer nodes you search.
If putting fail-low moves into the hash table reduces your node count, your
fail-soft is good enough to support this.
>
>>I don't just mean returning the fail-soft value.
>>
>>I mean, dealing with lazy eval, dealing with scores returned from null move,
>>dealing with stopping the search in q-search, etc.
>
>When a fail-low or fail-high score is suspect for some reason, I usually
>return gamma-1 or gamma rather than the exact score (gamma is my search
>bound).
>
I can't think of a case where you'd want to do this.
>Tord
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