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Subject: Re: Amateur chess program released

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:26:34 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 09:51:35, Brian Richardson wrote:

>I was able to download your program and run it under Winboard (could not get
>anything from the command line in console mode).  It looks fairly similar to my
>program Tinker (which has only been playing on ICC for about a month, although
>Tinker uses non-rotated bitboards).
>
>In your move ordering notes (on web site), I noticed you try captures before
>killer moves--you may want to test further with killers before captures--the
>advantage is that you can try killers before even generating captures, and you
>may get a cut.
>
>Brian

That's a small speed advantage, but I think you will find that ordering captures
high is always better in terms of search efficiency.

-Tom



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