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Subject: Re: Starting position to 30 ply

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:25:31 06/04/01

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On June 04, 2001 at 10:59:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 04, 2001 at 06:44:26, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Impressive branching factor. Do you use ETC to reduce the tree/graph? And do you
>>try to search smaller subtrees by finding irregular branching factors? I think
>>it would be interesting to see its search performance without Q-search.
>>
>>Regards Dan Andersson
>
>
>MTD(f) is a killer with material-only.  You don't do _any_ re-searches at
>all, which means it searches a perfectly ordered tree.

Noop it doesn't necessarily search a perfectly ordered tree depending
upon move ordering and nullmove implementation.

Material can fall of the board by stupid moves for example.





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