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Subject: Re: Branching factor, etc

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 05:27:03 08/30/02

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On August 30, 2002 at 08:06:53, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Tony,
>
>>I've thrown it out of XiniX and didn't find a negative consequence. Only a
>>positive, my program ran faster.
>
>So what do you do for move ordering?  Do you
>
>1) Hash
>2) Killer
>3) +ve SEE captures
>4) Other moves in any order
>5) -ve SEE captures
>

I've thrown out SEE as well. And I do captures before killers. I used to first
capture the last moved piece, but thrown that out as well. In 1 month my program
became quite smaller.

Tony

>Regards,
>
>Steve



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