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Subject: Re: King's Out : move ordering questions

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 06:10:06 04/02/04

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On April 01, 2004 at 07:57:27, Bernd Nürnberger wrote:

>On March 31, 2004 at 12:35:21, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:
>
>>>(1)
>>>I recognized that a different move ordering delivers very alternating
>>>results in my alpha beta search. (I implemented null move, pv search,
>>>mvv/lva, some history moves, transposition table, quiescence search ...)
>>>Is this a bug or is this a normal behaviour?
>>>For example, with 3 history moves (on initial position) i get:
>>>[...]
>>> 8.   0:01.12      993512   0.00  Nc3 Nf6 d4 d5 Nf3 Bf5 Ne5 Ne4
-------------------------------^^^^
>>>... and with just one more history move (4):
>>>[...]
>>> 8.   0:01.28     1088694   0.00  e4 Nc6 Nf3 e5 d4 Nxd4 Nxd4 h6
-------------------------------^^^^
>>
>>Seems reasonable.
>
>Mmmh, that still is not very reasonably to me to get much different results
>for different move orderings.
>The score of the moves itself should not be affected ?!
>Do you have an explanation?

But the score _is_not_ changed... see above.

Cheers,
Heiner



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