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Subject: Re: MVV/LVA verses MVV/MVA

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 07:17:00 08/04/04

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On August 04, 2004 at 05:44:57, Tony Werten wrote:

>On August 03, 2004 at 22:07:58, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>In a thesis paper on hardware move generation, the author found better success
>>with MVV/MVA than MVV/LVA for normal search (as opposed to quiescent).
>>http://www.macs.ece.mcgill.ca/~mboul/ICGApaper.pdf has this:
>
>How serious do you want to take a paper that uses a chessprogram that plays best
>if killer move, transpositiontables, check extensions and positional evaluation
>are disabled ?
>
>Tony

Note that figure 3 depicts rating differences, not absolutes. It shows that with
no heuristics FPGA improves the rating more than when heuristics are enabled.
The last few lines of page 7 explicitly say that "this setting, for which all
heuristics are activated, represents the strongest setting for MBChess".



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