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Subject: Re: following the pv

Author: José Carlos

Date: 00:16:10 01/07/00

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On January 06, 2000 at 23:46:58, Landon Rabern wrote:

>How much should following the pv from the previous iterative search level speed
>up the program?  I have no hash table yet and it seems that following the pv
>doesn't help at all or even slows it down a little in some places.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Landon W. Rabern

  AlfaBeta depends a lot of a good move ordering. If the best move is always the
first searched (in every position), you will go very deep very quickliy. So,
following the PV is, of course a good idea :), but you need a good move ordering
all around the tree to notice improvements.

  José C.



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