Qsearch and MVV-LVA

[smatovic]

I achieve the best nodes/seconds while using ascending MVV-LVA in AlhbaBeta and descending MVV-LVA in QSearch.

Is this common?

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Srdja

[bob]

I achieve the best nodes/seconds while using ascending MVV-LVA in AlhbaBeta and descending MVV-LVA in QSearch.

Is this common?

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Srdja

Ascending/descending doesn't make any sense to me. Do you mean maybe MVV/LVA in one and LVV/MVA in the other???

[smatovic]

Do you mean maybe MVV/LVA in one and LVV/MVA in the other???

Yes, thats what i mean.
Thank you for correcting my wording.

[Houdini]

I achieve the best nodes/seconds while using ascending MVV-LVA in AlhbaBeta and descending MVV-LVA in QSearch.

Is this common?

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Srdja

Why is "nodes/second" a criterion for picking either choice?
It's quite possible that the lowest nodes/sec value actually corresponds to the better solution.

Robert

[smatovic]

Why is "nodes/second" a criterion for picking either choice?
It's quite possible that the lowest nodes/sec value actually corresponds to the better solution.

Maybe....my engine plays still Blitz on a search depth of 4 so a magnitude slower search algorithm is not applyable.

...i do not understand the background why the Qsearch behaves different than pure Alphabeta concerning the move ordering.

I observed the effect that using MVV-LVA instead of LVV-MVA in Qsearch leads to an tree-explosion.

So i want to ask if this is a common behavior or specific in my implementation (->bug).

[hgm]

The fastest nodes are those where you stand pat. No need to generate moves or do anything. So doing lots of futile moves (where the opponent makes you faillow by standing pat) speeds up nps. If you could cause a cutoff from current eval = alpha - 200 in QS by RxQ, where the Rook gets recaptured, that is not nearly as fast as capturing a Pawn and failing low on that. So you reduce the average time per node by first failing low on a number of Pawn captures, before trying the cut move that you could have tried immediately.

[smatovic]

thx, just found an older post from you about that:

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... ht=lvv+mva