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Subject: Re: First move beta cutoff percentage

Author: William Bryant

Date: 12:17:37 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 00:59:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>But note that I do not count quiescence searching at all since move ordering
>is a lot simpler there.  And note that I only count this on nodes that fail high
>on some move.  If it fails high anywhere, in increment a counter.  If it fails
>high on the _first_ move searched, I increment another counter (I don't count
>the null-move as a move here, for obvious reasons).
>

Thanks for this clarification.  We may be comparing apples to oranges in how we
count fail high nodes.

Also, I very much may need to work on move ordering.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com




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