Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 05:39:04 12/18/97
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On December 18, 1997 at 08:24:12, Dan Homan wrote: >On December 18, 1997 at 07:36:12, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>Dan Homan wrote: >> >>>On move ordering.... >>> >>> Bob's point about using killers after captures because they are faster >>>than generating the rest of the moves (for use with the history >>>heuristic) >>>is an interesting one. That must be bit-board thing, because I don't >>>see a good way of doing that in my current framework... I can see >>>how it would be quite a bit faster if I didn't have to generate all the >>>moves at each ply. >> >>I might be mistaken, but wasn't the point of searching captures first >>that it >>ont he whole causes more cutoffs? >> > >Yes, if you cause a cutoff, you don't need to generate the rest of >the moves. I generate all the moves at the start, which is slower. > > - Dan > >> >>Bas Hamstra.
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