Daniel Shawul wrote:Thanks for the tests that confirm ABDADA is clearly better than lazy.
On a constant depth search my lazy gives a time-to-depth speedup of 1.11 while ABDADA gives 1.73 using 2 cores. So the advantage of ABDADA for me is quite significant even though i don't do anything fancy with lazy. YBW is superior than both in my engine, so I still think that is the best algorithm. If you fine tune your YBW (split depth etc) and use longer time control, may be it will be the the best for you too.
Daniel
You cannot discard other data. Stockfish YBW was beating Komodo Lazy on single core LTC, and losing terribly to Komodo on 16-32 cores LTC (TCEC). When they (Stockfish) slowly applied decently Lazy, it started beating Komodo Lazy on 16-44 cores pretty harshly as it is beating it on 1 core.
Houdini YBW (3,4) was quite equal on one core to Komodo Lazy at some time, but was losing terribly on 16-32 cores. The main change in Houdini 5 was adopting Lazy, and it was a sudden gain on 16-44 cores (similarly to what was for Stockfish). Houdini 5 in fact had beaten Komodo Lazy to final in TCEC, and only lost to Stockfish Lazy.
All those YBW implementations in top engines were crappy, and only yours is good?
On CCRL and CEGT, the known Lazy engines (Stockfish, Komodo, Andscacs, Houdini 5, Cheng) 1 -> 4 cores are scaling on average at least equal, more probably better than YBW known engines (Crafty 24, 23, Houdini 4,3,2, Rybka 4,3,2).
Do I have to dismiss this significant data, and to accept only yours?
Peter's data with Lazy and ABDADA are significant, but I still have to see more empirical data and at longer TC. Quick tricks like time-to-depth will not help here. To me, as of now, the LTC empirical data shows Lazy as applied in Stockfish and Komodo as the best, with Peter's results provisory and to be confirmed, and your statements as irrelevant.