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Subject: Re: It's working now and BOOM!!

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:48:25 11/21/01

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On November 21, 2001 at 03:11:32, José Carlos wrote:

>  I used to limit it in the first versions of my program. Some day I commented
>here and Christophe told me something like "there must be something broken in
>your program; don't limit the qsearch, you'll save nodes because of the better
>information".

I fail to see how a 32 ply quiescent search will save nodes by giving
better information to a 2 ply nominal search.

>  I fixed my problem (move ordering) and have been working perfectly since then.
>I also did extensive testing some time ago and non-limiting-qsearch version got
>better results.
I'll test it in my program too (not now, it's on the dissection table :)
but keep in mind that there are several ways to limit the quiescent search,
and quite a bit of them are wrong.

--
GCP



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