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Subject: Re: First win against a crafty clone

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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