Author: William H Rogers
Date: 08:19:35 03/16/00
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On March 16, 2000 at 10:59:46, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >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: > My understanding of the process is this: First you generate all move via alpha/beta, when you reach the maximun ply that you are set for then you do the quiesce search for captures, checks or check evasions, etc. You are trying to reach a quiet position. The principal is that you are blind past a certain point ie. horizon so you do a quiesce search beyond that point to see if your position is really good. >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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