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Subject: Foregoing positional eval in qsearch

Author: John Scalo

Date: 15:49:17 11/20/97


Q- Is it acceptable to run through the qsearch without ever evaluating
the position? In other words only the material balance is considered. It
sure is a lot faster and most positional eval's don't include a term
worth more than half a pawn. But there are some obvious dangers such as
ending up with a king in the middle of the board open to attack, etc. I
suppose it's a tradeoff of speed/quality of play. Is the speed worth it?



-j



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