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Subject: Re: Question on SEE and move ordering

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 08:20:34 03/17/00

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On March 17, 2000 at 10:36:42, William Bryant wrote:

>I the full width part of the search, do many programs use the SEE evaluation
>to order every capture when generated,
>
>or is the SEE used mainly to drop futile captures in the Q search.
>
>William
>wbryant@ix.netcom.com

It doesn't really make sense if you're not using your SEE to do move ordering.
If it isn't better at ordering moves than MVV/LVA, then you're in trouble and
probably don't have any business using it to prune captures in the q search.

-Tom



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