Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 06:29:40 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 08:45:56, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >What value do you return when you find a mate in the quiesce search? I used to >return a "mate" score but then I found this is not correct because many paths >were not considered in quiesce, so sometimes I got a "mate in n" score at the >root which wasn't really a forced mate. I've patched the bug by returning a >fixed value for now, but... which value is best? I return the mate score. I fail to see any problems with this. For example, if q-search sees: Qxd5 Rxe8 mate this just means that it can't play Rxe8, and thus will have to stick with the static score before Qxd5. anthony
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