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Subject: Re: How to order moves

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 12:39:09 03/30/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 15:04:09, Inmann Werner wrote:

>On March 30, 2000 at 11:07:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>Here is mine:
>>
>>1.  hash table move.
>>2.  captures that don't appear to lose material using a SEE procdedure,
>>ordered from biggest gain to equal exchanges.
>>3.  2 killer moves.
>>4.  up to 4 history ordered moves (history heuristic)
>>5.  rest of the moves.
>
>question to 5)
>here is the rest of the non capturing moves and the "loosing capture" moves.
>Which of them should be searched first?
>
>IMHO the non capturing moves.
>
>Werner

I don't think you should order them at all...
When the program reaches this point it will probably not find a fail high for
the current node and the sorting will only cost performance without giving much
in return.
//Peter




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