Different handling of ALL / CUT nodes

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Greg Strong
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Different handling of ALL / CUT nodes

Post by Greg Strong »

Has anyone tried hadling expected cut nodes differently from exected all nodes? For example, trying more aggressive move ordering or a more incremental approach to move generation?
Daniel Shawul
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Re: Different handling of ALL / CUT nodes

Post by Daniel Shawul »

I did not use node classification for the purposes you mentioned but
I used if for determining different bounds for deciding where to start the LMR reduction. Another one is for classifying nodes for SMP splitting purposes where you want to avoid unnecessary searches as much as possible.