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Subject: Re: evaluation tuning tricks

Author: Fabien Letouzey

Date: 07:33:33 03/17/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 10:25:24, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 17, 2004 at 09:55:59, Fabien Letouzey wrote:
>
>>No offense Tord, but I don't understand  why programmers think the move ordering
>>is "perfect" if a fail-high move is found first 100% of the time.
>
>Because the percentage of first-move fail-highs is easily measured?  Of course
>I agree that the size of subtrees is important, but I don't see how you can
>determine how often a fail-high move has a smaller sub-tree than all other
>fail-high moves at the same node, except by searching the whole minimax tree.
>
>Tord

You can do a "minimax" search for the first few plies and then use alpha-beta to
approximate the size of the minimal tree.

Of course it's a lot of work.

Fabien.




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