Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Crafty question about root move order? - THE RESULT!!!

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 22:01:58 03/07/01

Go up one level in this thread


On March 07, 2001 at 01:03:40, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>On March 06, 2001 at 10:39:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 05, 2001 at 23:57:05, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Dr. Hyatt,
>>>
>>>I am studying your RootMoveList function and wondering if its method of ordering
>>>could be replaced by calling Quiesce function.
>>>
>>>I mean the value for ordering could compute simply as following:
>>>
>>> value = -Quiesce(tree,-MATE-1,MATE+1,ChangeSide(wtm),INCPLY,1);
>>>
>>>(need not call Evaluation and EnPrise functions)
>>>Could it work with the same result? Do I miss something?
>>>
>>>Thank in advance for your advice,
>>>Pham
>>
>>Probably would work find.  Might take a bit longer to sort the move list
>>since that quiesce() call could be quite complex.  The question is, would the
>>probably more accurate move ordering offset the cost, or not?
>
>But this is the fastest (and little diffirent, if someone need :) ) way to try
>your idea. I will try it now. Thank you very much.

I have tried it. It works and saves me 1/4 of search nodes and time.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.
Pham



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.