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Subject: Re: Questions on the Alpha-Beta algorithm and other things.

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 15:10:18 02/19/00

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On February 18, 2000 at 12:02:59, José Carlos wrote:

>On February 18, 2000 at 11:37:34, Sanjiv Karnataki wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2000 at 03:13:19, Dan Newman wrote:
[snip]
>>
>>That is very impressive, but I am new here so a few questions:
>>
>>a) by move ordering, does that mean move ordering at the root only.
>
>  No, move ordering is important at every ply, but usually managed in a
>different way at the root.
>

More precisely, move ordering is very important at every other ply. If there is
no refutation for a particular move, the replies may be searched in any order,
as they all have to be searched.



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