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Subject: Re: Question about generating "Good Captures" in Quiescence Search

Author: John Boyd

Date: 19:55:12 03/23/03

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On March 23, 2003 at 10:51:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>many of us are doing that and have been doing it for many years.  The first
>thing that comes to mind is how accurately are you finding "winning/even
>captures"?  I use SEE and it is pretty accurate.  If yours is not, that will
>cause lots of problems...

Exactly. My "good capture" generator was asymmetric... ie. it was generating BxN
for black but NOT for white... messed the search up very nicely :)

Now its fixed and it seems to be working fine. I'd love to implement a good SEE
but it looks quite tricky. Have to think about it before diving in.

Thanks,
Ross





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