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Subject: Re: question about move generation.

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 08:40:31 11/18/99

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On November 18, 1999 at 08:35:56, Antonio Dieguez wrote:

>On November 18, 1999 at 06:41:49, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>hi Bas,
>
>>My program uses incremental move generation, in the sense that 1 move at the
>>time is generated. I too think the advantage over staged generators (eg. only
>>captures) is small, if any at all.
>
>and which is the move ordering in your program?
>
>>Bas Hamstra.

I have one old complete program and 8 incomplete testbeds :)

The complete program uses this:

- BM from hash
- Non losing caps sorted MVV and within that LVA (so not quite MVV/LVA)
- 2 Killers
- Non caps unsorted
- Losing caps

That's it. I see no need for history sorting, nor for SEE sorting. It uses
incremental peudo attack updating, that basically makes you have all captures at
hand at any time. And a cheap SEE. And cheap Check-checking :)


Regards,
Bas Hamstra.







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