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Subject: Re: Bitboards and Quick Killer

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 23:58:47 08/15/00

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On August 15, 2000 at 22:06:12, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>On August 15, 2000 at 21:03:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>I just ran this experiment with my program.
>>
>>Ordering killers before captures was 20% slower than "normal," in terms of total
>>nodes searched.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Tom,
>
>I ran my program with and without killers.  The board is at initial position and
>my killer code is somewhat broken... :)

The program without killers will obviously suck. I'm not saying that killers are
bad. I'm just saying that they should be ordered after [most] captures.

-Tom



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