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Subject: Re: Root move ordering - an experiment

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 07:43:12 09/29/04

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On September 28, 2004 at 18:44:13, Ed Schröder wrote:

>
>Interesting idea. Are you sure it's the best way of doing things? Any speed
>increase percentage to offer?
>
>My way of doing: after iteration one I do a full sort, after iteration 2 and up
>I increment the root scores with a decreasing value first (move-1 + 256, move-2
>+ 248, move-3 +240 etc.) before I sort. This is meant to keep the order of
>iteration one as good as possible and in the case certain moves had serious
>score increases these moves automatically will make it to the top.
>
>As last item I make sure that previous best-moves are stored as second, third,
>fourth in the list and finally that fail-high-errors (fail-high's that after a
>research did not produce a best move) are stored as second.
>
>I never found a better system. I will try to mix your idea with system and see
>what happens.
>
>My best,
>
>Ed

Hi Ed:
How do get scores for the other root moves?  In my case, for a typical iteration
(no fail hi or lo), the first move sets alpha.  All the rest of the moves come
back with that same value.

Thanks
Dan H.



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