Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:01:42 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 08:45:21, Severi Salminen wrote: >>Many people use node count (or time) to order root nodes, apart from always >>ordering the pv move of last ply first, of course. This seem to work ok. But as >>some people have suggested (Christophe, for one), this method isn't very much to >>the point and might have unwanted sideeffects. > >How is it "not to the point" and what side effects he means? For me it works. > >Severi I agree. I have used this since the early 1980's (Harry Nelson first proposed it and added it to Cray Blitz.) It makes sense as a move that looks more and more interesting (as the search goes deeper iteration by iteration) gets moved up the list nearer the top...
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