Author: macaroni
Date: 22:00:17 06/26/03
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On June 27, 2003 at 00:24:19, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 27, 2003 at 00:18:57, macaroni wrote: > >>What are the most used methods for sorting out the 'unworthy' lines? I currently >>use the history heuristic... > >Generally when I think of "sorting out the 'unworthy' lines", I think of forward >pruning. The history heuristic is mainly concerned with improving your move >ordering (which does help you get more cutoffs and in turn prunes inferior >lines), but the history heuristic by itself doesn't get rid of bad lines. > >The most popular example of forward pruning is null-move pruning. > >>but my main search seems to be doing ok anyway, it's >>the quiescence search that's having problems, with the q search I use biggest >>capture, smallest attacker, is there something much better? > >Are you considering every possible capture? Or are you only considering "good >captures"? thats the thing, how do I select 'good captures'? I can order them (biggest piece captured, smallest capturer), but what possible methods are there for checking 'good captures only'? Thanks
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