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Subject: Re: root search ordening

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:47:15 05/02/01

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On May 02, 2001 at 11:36:08, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>This way, you will have heavily extended root moves rather early in your move
>list. These moves must not always be good.
>
>Don't you regard this as a draw-back ?
>
>The advantage is perhaps that nice tactics (checking sacs ...) will be seen
>early.

Well there's a reason why these moves are so heavily extended. Something
interesting must be happening there. Even if they aren't good (according
to the search) yet there's a good chance they'll change score quickly
soon.

You do want to look those interesting moves first next iteration
don't you :)

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GCP



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