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Subject: Re: MTD Drivers

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:07:17 08/10/04

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On August 10, 2004 at 10:26:12, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On August 10, 2004 at 08:38:28, Tor Lattimore wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>>I recently converted my program to MTD. It's working quite well and performing
>>just a tad better than the old alpha-beta with pvs + hash ec cetera...
>>my question is, what sort of drivers are people using, with what sort of steps?
>>I have been fiddling arround, with a little success, just interested to know
>>what others do.
>>Cheers
>>Tor
>
>Mine goes up or down in increasing steps up to size 7. I've tried all sorts of
>things over the years. What works out best will vary with the nature of your
>evaluation.

I increase the step size all the way up to a pawn.  When the direction of
the search changes (i.e. when the search fails in a different direction
compared to the previous searches), I reduce the step size to 1 again.

I agree that the optimal approach will almost certainly depend on the
program.

Tord





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