Author: Landon Rabern
Date: 18:42:55 10/06/99
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On October 06, 1999 at 13:53:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >You have to be really careful when comparing these two values. Think about >this... You use Search() so long as depth is > 0. But as soon as depth ==0 >you call Quiesce... a node you can not possibly avoid searching (most of us >refer to such nodes as 'leaf' nodes. Below this your searching is optional, >but to get here you have no choice at all. This means that 1:1 is about the >best you can do the way you are counting nodes. Below this point you can do >a lot using the so-called "delta pruning" that is being discussed in another >thread... 5:1 is high, delta will drop that to well below 2:1 So when you get to depth=0 do you run a q-search always or just when the previous move was a capture,check, etc. ?
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