Author: Mikael Bäckman
Date: 04:30:03 03/18/04
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On March 18, 2004 at 05:26:51, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 18, 2004 at 03:17:10, Mikael Bäckman wrote: > >>I search losing non-captures before losing captures. To fix this, I would need >>to do an 'opponent-SEE' for all non-captures, which would cost too much, I >>think. > >This depends on where you do it. There is no reason why your move ordering >techniques should be the same everywhere in the tree. It makes sense to do >more expensive calculations in moves far from the leaves. For instance, you >could try to use your SEE for non-captures at all nodes where the remaining >depth is two plies or more. I doubt that the cost will be noticable at all. > >Tord This feels like a good idea for more advanced movegenerators. Currently I generate all moves at once and with a moveorder >=90% I would spend lots of time on calculating SEE which would never be used. /Mikael
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