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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:58:41 03/31/00

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On March 31, 2000 at 02:19:34, Jan Pernicka wrote:

>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...

Yes it would, so I don't. ( Sorry, I meant static exchange evaluation )

But still it takes quite some time. That why I trie to recapture last moved
piece first. I get that one for free, and it gives a lot of cut-offs.

Tony

PS I though I had sent this message already but I probabely forget to submit it,
because someone bothered me. How dare they. I'm here for fun, not for work.

>
> Jan



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