Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 13:51:41 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 09:29:45, Jari Huikari wrote: >On October 20, 1998 at 09:03:46, Jari Huikari wrote: > >>What about only having higher value for beta cutoffs in Ply=2. Won't it find >>then exact values of the best replies for opponent and so with quite a low >>cost values for legal moves? Two plies minimax, the rest alpha-beta. Can it >>cost many plies? > > Forget it... I have drunk too few coffee this morning! > >Oh course it will take 19 times longer. But would this give any better >move ordering if used only in searchdepth=2 in iterative deepening? The >move order could be slightly better for deeper lookaheads? > > Jari I am astounded. I forgot about this. Are Fritz 5/Junior 5 the only programs that can do this? They indeed are sorted in alpha beta order. -- Komputer Korner
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