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Subject: Re: Root Move Ordering

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 12:41:13 01/15/02

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On January 15, 2002 at 14:59:42, Bo Persson wrote:

>
>But, some of us believe that the "difficult" moves are expensive because they
>have been very hard to dismiss at previous iterations, and therefore are the
>prime candidates for being best move whenever the PV move fails low.
>
>Then, why not search them first!?
>

No one says that node ordering is bad. It is quite good. If it wasn't, so many
good programs wouldn't be using it. The reasons why node ordering works, are
obvious.

I am just saying: Can't we do better?

/David



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