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Subject: Re: root search ordening

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 09:53:04 05/02/01

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On May 02, 2001 at 11:21:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>
>Mine is easy to do... and dates back to the early days of Cray Blitz, so it
>has been tested quite extensively...
>
>I save the nodes searched for each root move.  For the PV move (the best move
>after iteration N) I set its node count to something larger than any other move,
>then I simply sort on node counts.  This puts the PV from iteration N-1 first
>when we do iteration N.  If you change your mind at N-1 once, then the original
>best move plus the new best move will have the two highest node counts and they
>will be first.  Etc.

Do you use the node count from the last iteration or do you compute the sum of
all previous iterations? At the moment I only use the last iteration but think
about to use the sum (although I dont think that it´ll make a big difference).

Greetings,
Steffen.



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