Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:15:30 11/27/00
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On November 27, 2000 at 02:57:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 26, 2000 at 13:18:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>1) MVV/LVA. You take the *value* (pawn=100, minor=300, etc.) of the taken >>piece, and subtract the *index* (pawn=0, knight=1, bishop=2, rook=3, etc.) of >>the attacking piece, and sort this from high to low, and just search them all. > >I always thought MVV/LVA was taking the value of the taken piece and subtracting >the value of the taking piece. I've never heard of it this way. Why would >it work better? It is a case of primary/secondary key. The primary key is the value of the taken piece. The secondary key is the value of the taking piece. This is how GnuChess does it. I assumed that it was doing MVV/LVA correctly. >When you say index do you imply that the indexes run from lowest valued >piece to highest? Yes. bruce > >-- >GCP
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