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Subject: Re: SEE and FH-%

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:16:00 03/30/04

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On March 30, 2004 at 12:29:42, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
>today I wanted to implement SEE, and use it in the Qsearch. My SEE isn't using
>X-ray (discovered attacks) at the moment, but I already expected to see a boost
>in FH-%. Unfortunately I didn't see it yet...
>
>Using it in the main-search did give an advantage of some 5%
>
>1> Is SEE not that important in Qsearch?
>
>2> With MVV/LVA I had about 15-20% Quiscence nodes, with SEE I have 25-30%
>   Qnodes!?
>
>Could some one give an overview of which move-ordering technique is responsible
>for how much FH-%?!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Renze

If you use SEE everywhere for move ordering, it will reduce the total tree size
by about 10% over MVV/LVA.  But if you use SEE to eliminate hopeless captures in
the tree search, you will reduce the tree size by more than 50%, which is very
significant.  MVV/LVA can't be used to do this since it is a poor estimator for
expected gain or loss...




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