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Subject: Re: Move Ordering

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 07:46:17 12/25/02

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On December 24, 2002 at 23:05:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>[...] Why don't you go read Knuth/Moore's paper on
>alpha beta.  There you will find that move ordering does _not_ affect the
>final score, only the size of the tree.  Something every senion-level computer
>science student should know.

I think, in most modern chess programs, move ordering can affect the final
score. Reasons can be extensions/pruning/hash tables.

Regards,
Dieter

• Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 12:18:29 12/25/02
  • Re: Move Ordering Miguel A. Ballicora 22:34:46 12/25/02
    • Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 07:55:55 12/26/02
      • Re: Move Ordering Miguel A. Ballicora 20:15:41 12/26/02
        • Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 21:57:08 12/26/02
      • Re: Move Ordering Uri Blass 08:09:16 12/26/02
        • Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 14:49:35 12/26/02
  • Re: Move Ordering Dieter Buerssner 13:57:22 12/25/02
    • Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 19:32:18 12/25/02
      • Re: Move Ordering Dieter Buerssner 14:08:37 12/26/02
        • Re: Move Ordering Robert Hyatt 14:52:07 12/26/02
  • Re: Move Ordering Uri Blass 12:30:57 12/25/02

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