Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:58:15 11/20/97
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On November 20, 1997 at 18:49:17, John Scalo wrote: >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 At blitz chess, it might play well... assuming you do positional evals at the first ply of qsearch... but in general, this will run faster, but play worse, because captures tend to disrupt a position more than anything else. IE produce weak pawns, weak king safety, passed pawns, and other positional things you would totally overlook... I'd suggest caution...
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