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Subject: Re: Quiesce Question

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:26:52 03/16/00

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On March 16, 2000 at 10:59:46, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Another question on that:
>
>Doesn't quiesce and extending on captures reach the same goal to a certain
>extend?

No. If you extend, you will have to look at *all* moves. If you do
quiescent search you *only* look at captures (and maybe checks).

Thats a pretty big difference in tree sizes...

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GCP



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