Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 01:46:43 08/10/98
Hi all! I would like to tell you something about an idea which I had this weekend. I talked a bit about it with Bruce at ICC and he said that it might already be a known idea. I would appreciate some feedback. Some time ago someone (KK?) posted statistics about the first moves of white. This seemed rather useless for me. More interesting would be the the likelihood of _any_ move played in a won game by a strong player. This information e.g. could be used for a trivial move ordering. My plan is to do the following: 1. Use a precalculated list of all possible moves for the move generator in your chess engine. 2. Add a counter to the move structure 3. scan a large database with only high quality games and increment the counter for each game where the winner made this move. The counter could be used to perform a very simple but also cheap move ordering or even for the evaluation itself. This idea could be improved if you don't store only a counter but a set of (pawnstruct, counter) pairs. What do you think? Greetings, Steffen.
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