Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 09:16:57 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 11:06:56, James B. Shearer wrote: >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 You missed the point! Keep thinking.
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