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Subject: Re: QSearch

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 10:35:16 08/17/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 11:57:47, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>Hi David,
>
>>My Qsearch usually takes up 70-80 % of the nodes searched.
>>What are the, say, 10 best ideas/techniques to cut this number down?
>
>The other posters in this thread have already pointed out most
>of the known things to do in your case.
>
>If you are looking for more detailed explanations and some pseudo-code
>of futility pruning in the quiescence search and elsewhere, you might
>want to take a look at my book "Scalable Search in Computer Chess".
>
>Please take a look at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/node1.html
>for more information about the book.
>
>Cheers,
>
>=Ernst=

I just ordered your book, Ernst.
Hope it is not too far over my head ;)

Larry.




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