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Subject: Re: Rebel Century Last Minute improvements

Author: leonid

Date: 16:28:05 09/27/99

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On September 27, 1999 at 04:23:24, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>Hello Ed,
>
>>From one thing came another, I had a critical look at move ordering again,
>>made some changes, did intensive testing and there it was: 10-15% faster in
>>the end-game and 25-30% faster in the middle-game.
>
>Congratulations. I too notice that small changes can have large consequences.
>However in some positions system a is better and in some system b is better.
>What exactly did you change? Just avoiding playing HOOGSTENS moves?
>
>>After 18 years wrestling, fiddling and twiddling with move-ordering this is
>>remarkable as I expected move-ordering was close to perfect in Rebel. I wonder
>>how much improvement there is still left in move-ordering.
>
>I too. Maybe for positions near the root use ETC and sort accordingly? So play
>each move, look if the resulting position is in the hashtable. If no cutoff is
>possible, you could improve sorting failsoftvalues. This is something I am
>planning.
>



What in the passage over signify "ETC" ?
It is interesting for me since my move-ordering is very bad.
Leonid.



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