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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