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Subject: Re: Question for Hyatt about Alpha/Beta

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:07:17 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 15:01:13, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>So, in modern engines, what are the determining factors which set the move
>ordering?  What does choice of move ordering depend on and what does it not
>depend on?
>
>Bob D.


Big question.  There are lots of things.  The transposition table is critical to
supply best moves from previous iterations, which is why we did them in the
first place.  Then killer/history heuristic moves, good/even captures.  Some use
their evaluation code to help in sorting the moves...

The choice has to be based on whatever the goal of the search is.  IE if you are
going to play "loser's chess" then you want to look at moves that give up the
most material first, etc...



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