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Subject: Re: Advantage of MVV\LVA over MVV (TRICK OPINION AND SQUARE TABLES)

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 21:56:48 08/02/04

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On August 02, 2004 at 16:46:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 02, 2004 at 16:44:36, Cesar Contreras wrote:
>
>>
>>Is supose changing:
>>
>>value_capture=(piece_value[victim_piece_type]-piece_value[attacker_piece_type]);
>>
>>To
>>
>>value_capture=(piece_value[victim_piece_type]-piece_value[attacker_piece_type]/10);
>>
>>will do the trick. Supossing PAWN_VALUE = 100
>>I'm doing this, because i need bigger diferences between capture values because
>>i use piece square table as a (small )factor to order captures. Is it wrong to
>>use piece square tables on ordering captures?
>
>Sounds like a very good idea to me. Capturing a well placed piece with
>a badly placed one should on average be better than the reverse.
>

Every time I have messed around with using psqts to order moves I've found that
my trees get bigger.  I read on Ed's Rebel page that they work well for him,
though.  Does anyone here have similar good luck using psqt in move ordering?

Scott



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