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Subject: Re: Unsuccessful experiments in move ordering

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 06:58:51 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 09:28:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 14, 2000 at 04:01:36, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>I have seen this used successfully:
>>
>>Order the moves by the time of the last search.  For ply one (which is
>>instantaneous) just use generated order.  Then for each subsequent ply, first,
>>analyse the current pm, then the one that took longest to analyze after that.
>>Then the next longest.  The one that was fastest should be analyzed last.
>>
>>It seems to work very well in practice.  And it is absurdly simple.
>
>This only works for the root moves however, which leaves the main part of
>the tree without help...

Hi Bob,
have you tried this move ordering in non-root nodes? I do not mean every node of
the search tree, or course; but perhaps it can be useful in PV-nodes.
José.



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