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Subject: Re: Aspiration Window sizes

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:45:16 03/15/05

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On March 14, 2005 at 15:04:22, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 14, 2005 at 10:25:15, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:
>
>>bob says right, you must find your own way which size is good for your engine.
>>It depends on our eval. For example my engine have at the moment not a good
>>eval, so i use 50 window.
>
>And my engine, it seems, has the worst eval of them all.  Aspiration windows
>simply don't work for me, regardless of their size.  Glaurung does not use
>aspiration windows at all.

Same here. I found out a while ago, that XiniX needs less nodes/ply with a full
window. OTOH with a window, it finds out when the best-move-until-now has a fail
low much faster.

Make your pick. I'm still using a window, but when I get my timecontrol better,
I'm certainly dropping it again.

Tony

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>Tord



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