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Subject: Re: Is my move ordering acceptable?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:19:59 10/30/03

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On October 30, 2003 at 10:46:09, Vladimir Medvedev wrote:

>>>In order to find out how good my move ordering is, I determined to check
>>>which percentage of the cutoffs occured on the first move searched.
>
>Is branching factor more or less accurate parameter to evaluate quality of
>sorting moves?

They ought to be reflective, on a large sample.  IE low BF = high fail high
on first move percentage, over a large set of problem positions.



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