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Subject: Re: Root move ordering

Author: Sergei S. Markoff

Date: 22:08:49 09/26/04

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>Note that I didn't invent this.  Harry Nelson (cray blitz team member) did so
>around 1984 or so when he noticed the parallel search issue of a move near the
>end of the move list becoming best on the next iteration, if there was time.
>  He was a big "problem solver" rather than a "chess game player" and was
> looking for things that would help solve problems quicker.  This idea also
> applied well to real games also so we adopted it and I continued to do so in
> Crafty...
>
>But it was 100% Harry Nelson...

Thank you for info.



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