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Subject: Re: Programmer challenge

Author: Filip Tvrzsky

Date: 14:04:52 02/20/03

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On February 20, 2003 at 11:26:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>
>One point.  After you try a few such moves, you can become pretty well convinced
>that this is an ALL node where move ordering is irrelevant.  You ought to turn
>it off
>after N moves have not produced a cutoff.  N is something you have to come up
>with
>of course.  I do this with the History heuristic and I use N=4 myself, as I have
>already tried
>the hash move, good captures (SEE says gain >= 0) and killer moves.
>

So is there any sorting of moves necessary at all? If I can understand what you
means, when hash move, killers and good captures etc. don't produce a cutoff,
the task is only to select N=4 of most promising moves from remaining ones?
Filip



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