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Subject: Re: And a few additional questions.

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 23:50:03 11/26/00

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On November 26, 2000 at 11:13:31, Severi Salminen wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I forgor to mention that I use the "stand pat" beta cutoffs in qsearch:
>
>if(static_eval>=beta)
>   return static_eval);
>
>I'd like to know should I test any mate or stalemate situations before returning
>(in those cases the score is totally wrong). Or do I allways make the assumption
>that there is at least one legal non capture move available (which is not
>obviously tested)?
>
>And is there any idea to try nullmoves in qsearch? Has anyone tried that and
>what was the result?

If you only search a few ply, it's usefull. But for nowadays engines it only
blows up the search. The article from advances in computerchess 5 is outdated.

cheers,

Tony
>
>Severi



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