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Subject: Re: I want to SEE.

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 04:00:17 12/21/01

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>I would advice you to improve your move ordering by less sophisticated methods
>first, that is, killers, history. Hashing is extremely important too, so if you
>don't have that, do that first. That is not easy to get right (you'll make a lot
>of bugs at first), but it is extremely important for all sorts of reasons,
>including move ordering.
>
>A good move ordering scheme without SEE should be able to get about 85-90% on
>average.

And be sure to first try MVV/LVA before SEE. It will also improve ordering. SEE
will definitely improve it even more, but it will also slow the search a little.
At first my engine got only a small benefit from SEE but pruning in qsearch with
SEE is very efficient.

Severi



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