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Subject: Re: How to order moves (& others)

Author: Jan Pernicka

Date: 23:19:34 03/30/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 08:57:27, Tony Werten wrote:

>On March 30, 2000 at 06:04:42, Jan Pernicka wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>I have several questions:
>> 1) How do you order your moves to get as much cutoffs as possible
>>     (more than methods - captures,PV,killers... I'm interested in their
>>    "order of importence" - i.e. which one goes 1st,2nd ....)
>
>Hello Jan,
>
>the way I do it,
>
>1) hashtablemove
>2) capture of last moved piece
>3) captures where static evaluation > 0
>4) captures where S.E. = 0 and promotions
>5) killermoves
>6) killermoves previous ply
>6) rest ordered by historytable
>
>Tony

  Hi Tony,
thank you for your answer, but at point 3) - you evaluate the whole position
 after that capture move? it could take a lot of time, I think...

 Jan



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