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Subject: Re: Rank (order) moves by time spent last ply?

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 12:35:11 01/31/02

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On January 31, 2002 at 15:21:53, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>Currently I use:
>>1. pv from last iteration
>>2. 2 "killers" - with a somewhat peculiar meaning at ply 0: these are the most
>>recent non-pv moves that have had scores > alpha. Meaning, they were at one
>>point the best move, even if the last iteration didn't ultimately select them.
>>3. Apparently winning captures/promotions (from SEE).
>>4. Rest of moves.
>
>Do you mean using node counters doesn't improve over above method? It should be
>both faster (well, marginally...) and more reliable.

It wasn't. I ran tests both ways.

--Jon



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