Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 18:38:06 09/26/04
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On September 26, 2004 at 02:57:41, martin fierz wrote: >On September 26, 2004 at 00:39:43, Sergei S. Markoff wrote: > >>How much root move ordering based on nodes count for each move improves playing >>strength? Does anyone have results on it? >> >>I was in thought about this method of root moves ordering and was disguisted >>when discovered that Dr.Hyatt invented it before me :)) > >wow sergei, you have even more questions than i do :-) > >i can't answer this question, because ed schröder told me i was doing crappy >testing when i tried to measure this. he told me to count the number of nodes >needed in test sets to check move ordering. I think it is important to caveat that remark with the point that you should only count nodes if you are doing fixed-depth searches for your testing. I don't do fixed-depth searches. I do fixed-time searches and for that, node-counting is not (as) effective Stuart
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