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Subject: Re: Searching PV first

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 18:06:47 07/19/04

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On July 19, 2004 at 18:21:38, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On July 19, 2004 at 18:07:53, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>So I recently added some code to search the PV first
>>but with an add-on whose effect may be a curveball
>>in the longrun but appears okay at first.
>>
>>PV is searched first but with the add-on that any other
>>position that is searched (but not on the PV) there is a check
>>made for whether a PV-move at the same depth is available
>>in this position and if so it is searched first.
>>
>
>Do you use killer heuristics in move ordering?
>
>Richard.

Only in the sense of history heuristic. No explicit killers.

Do you think explicit killers will help the history heuristic that much?



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