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Subject: Re: node explosion

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 15:37:26 08/22/05

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On August 22, 2005 at 17:40:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 22, 2005 at 15:50:15, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>What is the most likely cause of a huge node explosion at depth 10, with a
>>branching factor of 24?
>>
>>I'm getting 72% move ordering with this order...
>>
>>1. Best move in previous ply
>>2. Winning captures
>>3. Killer moves
>>4. Neutral captures
>>5. Bad captures
>>6. Rest of the moves
>>
>>Thanks for any clues
>>Dave
>
>
>A pathological case.
>
>For example, you search to depth N, and you get all the move ordering stuff set
>for that tree, then you search one ply deeper and discover everything changes,
>and what was a good move in the last search is now horrible because you are
>seeing some tactics you were overlooking at one ply less.
>
>This doesn't happen that often, but it does happen, and there's nothing you can
>do since you can't tell that ordering is screwed up until after the fact...   :)

Internal iterative deepening may help in such cases.

Thanks,
Eugene



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