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Subject: Re: Move ordering ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:21:25 10/21/98

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On October 21, 1998 at 10:54:16, James T. Walker wrote:

>If I understood a previous thread, Dr. Hyatt indicated that there is effectively
>no move ordering done by most programs(At least Crafty)?  Can anyone please
>answer this for me??  It seems unreal that there would be no attempt to order
>the moves so that the most promising moves were searched first.
>
>Another question-- Can anyone tell me if there is any advantage to having 1 meg
>of L2 cache vs 512K relative to chess programs?
>Thanks,\
>Jim Walker


I'm not sure where you got that idea.  Using alpha/beta there is *nothing*
more important that getting the move ordering as close to perfect as possible.



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