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Subject: Re: Advantage of MVV\LVA over MVV

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:22:14 08/02/04

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On August 02, 2004 at 16:12:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 02, 2004 at 16:04:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On August 02, 2004 at 16:01:14, Cesar Contreras wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I'm getting better result's (about 8% margin) ordering capture moves based only
>>>on victim value (ignoring attacker value), i think i'm doing something grong.
>>>
>>>My question is: it's significatly better MVV\LVA over MVV
>>>
>>>I know both are aproximations, but witch one it's statically better.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Did you use attacker values instead of attacker *indexes*?
>>
>>It's a common mistake and I can't think of anything else that would cause what
>>you're seeing.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>I am afraid that I have no attacker indexes in my code so I do not understand
>what you are talking about.
>
>I have piece list but it is only an array like bishops[10][2] that gives me the
>squares of the bishops in the board(no more than 10 bishops per side).

         MVV/LVA value       MVV/LVA index
Pawn         100                  1
Bishop       300                  2
Knight       300                  2
Rook         500                  3
Queen        900                  4

Sortvalue = Victimvalue - Attackerindex

--
GCP



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