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Subject: Re: MVA/LVA sorting order

Author: Tom King

Date: 14:23:24 03/13/99

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On March 13, 1999 at 07:48:31, Tom King wrote:

>On March 12, 1999 at 02:45:52, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On March 12, 1999 at 02:26:49, JW de Kort wrote:
>>
[SNIP]
>>>e.g suposse we have the following possible captures: PxN, PxR, QxR
>>>
>>>using methode 1: PxR, PxN, QxR
>>>using methode 2: PxR, QxR, PxN
>>>
>>>Wich one is MVA/LVA?
>>
>>It is method 2.
>>As a finesse, you can try sorting King captures first (so KxR comes before PxR).
>
>Is this good (King captures first)? Doesn't this go against the definition of
>MVVLVA?
>
I just ran some quick tests. For my program following MVVLVA rather than MVVLVA
(but sorting these king captures first) seems to be about 5% faster. Anyone else
tried this?



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