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Subject: Re: Measure of moveorder quality

Author: Pauli Misikangas

Date: 00:06:51 09/06/99

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On September 04, 1999 at 22:15:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>The measurement I do inside crafty is to count the number of positions where I
>get a fail-high, and then count the number of positions where I get a fail high
>on the _first_ move I search.  I am generally seeing this average about 94%,
>which means 94% of the times when I fail high, I fail high on the first move,
>which is pretty good.
>
>if you want to compare, count the same things I count, and look at the fh:94%
>output in the statistics...

Do you count also positions where you get a fail-high on the null move or a hash
cutoff (fail-high directly from the hashtable without making any move)? Do you
increase counters during quiescense search?

Pauli Misikangas



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