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Subject: Re: Hashtable size: diminishing returns?

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:51:14 03/30/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 01:37:33, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On March 29, 2000 at 23:50:51, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On March 28, 2000 at 23:30:11, Andrew Dados wrote:
>>
[snip]
>>>>
>>>>So in the case where there is going to be a fail-low, you think that doing IID
>>>>will use more time than just searching every move immediately at the required
>>>>depth?  Why?  (If that's not what you meant, then I misunderstood you.)
>>>
>>>That's what I ment, yes. You *have to* search all the moves at that ply to full
>>>depth anyway, so searching first to depth 1, then 2, etc is not helpful at all
>>>in FL node. You'll waste all those nodes.
>>
>>"not helpful at all"?  IID will give you better move ordering than you could get
>>statically, which should save you work overall.
>>
>
>Just curious... what 'better move ordering' in FL node? Any move ordering is as
>good as other there (we will search all moves and all will fail low)... and that
>was my main point.
>

If you *know* it is a FL node, you don't need to search at all. ;) In those
cases where it actually isn't, you need to order your moves to find the
refutation.



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