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Subject: Re: Rebel Century Last Minute improvements

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 09:28:36 09/28/99

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>Posted by Bas Hamstra on September 28, 1999 at 08:04:10:
>
>Hi Ed,
>
>Some measure the quality of movesorting as follows:
>
>a) count the total nr. of fail highs
>b) count the total nr. of FH's at the first move
>
>b/a represents the goodness of movesorting. Bob reports 94%. A friend of mine
>reports > 90%. I still have to measure, will soon.
>
>But I am not sure this is the most advanced test there is. It seems that
>movesorting near the root is VERY important for the total nodes searched,
>while near the leafs this is much less important. I would like to know *how* much
>less, but have no idea.
>
>Anyway, if that is true, this b/a number doesn't take that into account. Since
>most nodes are near the leafs you don't get a clue about the movesorting of
>nodes near the root, where it is most important...
>
>Regards,
>Bas Hamstra.

Here is what I do (in a nutshell)...

#1. Sort the move-list after each iteration.
#2. Make sure that the order of the moves (after the first iteration) doesn't
change much unless there is a very good reason for that.

Ed




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