Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 08:06:56 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 09:25:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On September 28, 1999 at 08:13:47, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>A while ago it was posted here that movesorting near the root was much more
>>important than near the leafs.
>>
>>- Is that true?
>>- If so, how much more important?
>
>
>Think about this for a minute. If you get the wrong move first near the leaves,
>how much work does it take to search the wrong move and then get the right one
>to get that cutoff? Compare this to positions near the root. So yes, it is
>_exponentially_ more important to get the move ordering right nearer to the root
>than nearer to the leaves.
Yes but there are exponentially many more nodes near the leaves so this
is not completely convincing.
James B. Shearer
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