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 The article from advances in computerchess 5 is outdated.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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