Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 12:09:58 06/17/05
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On June 17, 2005 at 14:29:39, rasjid chan wrote: >"Yace for example stores a best move in HT even when failing low" >I presumed the best move here is the max of fail-low(UB)scores <=alpha. Correct. And as you are probably aware, in fail hard search, all those scores will be == alpha. >Depending on greater UB for move ordering may not be correct. >Crafty uses node count for ordering at root. >What about using node count also for best move in fail-low? Might be a good idea - one would have to try. Vincent just mentioned something that suggests the contrary, however. In my engine, I unfortunately still use 32 bit node counters. With long analysis they can overflow. I would not like to depend on them for move ordering. Regards, Dieter
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