Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 07:45:26 01/05/02
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On January 05, 2002 at 09:12:17, Severi Salminen wrote: > >>A question: Which one do you think is better: generate non-capture before >>history moves or do the history moves (and check if they are valid like checking >>hash move) before generating non-capture moves? > >Usually history moves are not like killers: we don't have a few moves stored >that we can try. Usual implementation is to mainatain an array history[64][64] >that holds an integer values for every history[from_square][to_square]. The >higher the number the better the move has been. So it's not a good idea to check >the validity of these 64*64 moves :) Answer: I generate non-captures and sort >them based on their history values. One has of course a lot to experiment how to >actually increase move's history value and if they should be erased or reduced >after search is complete. > >Severi You are right. I just think the idea of use history moves as killer moves but forget totally about attributes of history moves :)
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