Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:47:54 07/22/04
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On July 22, 2004 at 06:29:45, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On July 22, 2004 at 06:06:15, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On July 21, 2004 at 22:09:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Nobody uses the transposition table to order the moves at ply=1. >> >>I do. I agree that it might not be optimal, but it always seemed too messy >>and complicated to me to have a separate search function at the root level. >>The main search() function is called directly from the iterative deepening >>loop, and the same move ordering is used at the root as at all other nodes >>far from the leaves. >> >>Tord > >When you find a new best move at the root do you not reorder and keep the old >best move as second to be searched? No, I don't. >To me that seems logical and not too messy. I agree that it seems logical, but I don't have a separate root search function, and I don't want to clutter my search function with too many if(Ply==0) { ... } statements. It is very likely that I will try something like this in my new engine, though (probably by using a separate root search function). Tord
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