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Subject: Percentage of nodes in quiescence search?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:57:00 05/30/00


Bob has suggested (in a thread below) that quiescence search nodes should
account for 50% or less of the total nodes searched.

Here's what my code looks like:

int search(int alpha, int beta, int depth)
{
  if (depth <= 0)
    return qsearch(...);
  ++nodes;
  ...
}

int qsearch(int alpha, int beta)
{
  ++nodes;
  ...
}

With this code, I find it hard to believe that anyone could get a percentage <
50. Are people doing things differently than me? Is anyone getting more than
50%?

-Tom



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