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Subject: Re: Quiesce Question

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 07:59:46 03/16/00

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On March 16, 2000 at 10:45:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 16, 2000 at 09:42:43, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>I am still having a problem with quiesce. Lets assume that after several plys
>>my program ends up on e4. Do I just look at e4 to see if there are any captures,
>>or do I search the whole board for captures etc.?
>>I know that checks are included here too.
>>Thanks in advance
>>Bill
>
>
>Some do it either way.  I look at the whole board, find all the captures,
>then weed out the ones that seem futile to search...

Another question on that:

Doesn't quiesce and extending on captures reach the same goal to a certain
extend? What technique is better at what ? Do you do both ?

Thanks.



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