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Subject: Re: Is my move ordering acceptable?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 09:02:04 10/30/03

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On October 30, 2003 at 10:14:15, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 30, 2003 at 08:41:50, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>In order to find out how good my move ordering is, I determined to check
>>which percentage of the cutoffs occured on the first move searched.  After
>>10 blitz games, the average was 91.4%.  Looks a bit low, doesn't it?  What
>>do other engines get?
>>
>>Tord
>
>this has been discussed before and while i don't remember the details, i
>remember that bob said "i'd be worried if it was below 90%". numbers reported
>here in the past used to be between 90 and 95% IIRC. it depends heavily on the
>position though, so it's hard to compare numbers between engines if they don't
>look at the same positions.

That's why I didn't just check one or a few positions, but played several
complete games and collected statistics from all positions in all games.
But perhaps 10 games is not enough, and I should run more games in order
to get a reliable result.

Tord



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