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Subject: Re: Move ordering ideas

Author: Matt McKnight

Date: 00:36:06 03/09/01

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On March 08, 2001 at 05:08:03, Matt McKnight wrote:
>
>   First idea:
>     Inspired by the killers list, I tried keeping a list of two moves per ply
>that seemed to be bad ideas, (score < alpha) and using that to sort those moves
>in the future to the end of the list.  This seems to give me a small gain.  Is
>this idea good, or will it cost me in some positions?
>

With further testing, this seems to hurt me VERY badly in some cases.  I don't
think it's valuable at all now.

Matt



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