Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:56:02 12/18/99
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On December 18, 1999 at 21:46:17, leonid wrote: >It is very interesting that I found many times that people indicate the usage of >"illegal moves" as very beneficial. Was able to use them only in the ply zero. Can you restate this? I can't think of a time when illegal moves would be beneficial... >Today read one idea more that looked to me very promissing. Tryed it but, beside >light lost in speed, found nothing. It was the statement indicating that when >you have some enemy piece under the fire, take it first with your less valuable >piece. Found no improvement when put this idea to work. Strange! Idea sound to This method (MVV/LVA) will slow your program down in terms of nodes per second, but it should radically increase the effectiveness of alpha-beta cutoffs. If it doesn't, maybe there's something wrong with your search algorithm. -Tom
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