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Subject: Re: Advantage of MVV\LVA over MVV

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:21:45 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 04:20:00, martin fierz wrote:

>On August 02, 2004 at 16:22:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>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
>
>i don't understand this - are the victimvalues 1 for a pawn or 100? and anyway,
>why does this attackerindex thing work better than using attackervalues? i used
>to use MVV/LVA with values in my program before switching to a SEE and it seemed
>to work quite well (or my SEE is crap, that is another possibility...)
>
>cheers
>  martin

ah, i just read your answer above - sorry for asking a second time... hmm, i'll
have to try this!

any idea how much better your "correct" MVV/LVA is compared to the value
comparison?

cheers
  martin



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