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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