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Subject: Re: Thanks to the following for their assistance on move ordering...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:57:16 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 14:27:54, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Christian Söderström
>Gian-Carlo Pascutto
>Ulrich Tuerke
>Robert Hyatt

Oops.
Forgot Andrew Williams!

>
>And even David Rasmussen, because his number was of value, even if his
>explanation was a bit lacking.
>;-)
>
>It seems that move ordering is something of a black art.
>
>Everyone does it a little differently.
>Everyone even *counts* it a little differently (so we have to think clearly to
>see if we are comparing apples to oranges).
>
>And yet, it is one of the most important facets of the search.  The performance
>jump in going from 70% correct to 90% correct will be enormous.
>
>I also went through the information in Ernst Heinz's excellent book, and
>Pepito's code.



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