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AlvaroBegue
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Re: see

Post by AlvaroBegue »

lauriet wrote:Sounds like a lot of processing for a little gain ???
Has anybody got data on if it effective in increasing ELO ?
In my notes I have the results of trying to remove the pruning of SEE<0 moves from quiescence search: -40 Elo (391-597-818)
abulmo2
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Re: see

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AlvaroBegue wrote:
lauriet wrote:Sounds like a lot of processing for a little gain ???
Has anybody got data on if it effective in increasing ELO ?
In my notes I have the results of trying to remove the pruning of SEE<0 moves from quiescence search: -40 Elo (391-597-818)
In Amoeba, I use see to prune moves in quiescence search, to sort them and even to prune some bad moves during search. Removing all of them costs Amoeba 70 +/- 10 Elo.
Richard Delorme
tttony
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Re: see

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