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Subject: Re: The Neverending Story Of Checks And QSearch

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:35:16 10/24/00

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On October 24, 2000 at 03:53:10, David Blackman wrote:

>On October 23, 2000 at 14:20:04, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>
>>b) should standpat be allowed when the king is in check?
>
>NO!
>If you allow this, then you might as well not do checks in the q search at all.
>What is the point of giving check if your opponent is allowed to ignore it?

I understand this. This is why I said 'partly do checks in qsearch' for
option B. I am interested in, even if we don't actually handle checks,
if there are some cases in which we cannot ignore them.

From Remi's comment I understand it IS safe to stand pat in check
if you do not try to do full checks in quiescent search. Which is
what I do.

Currently I forbid the qsearch to be entered with a king that is
in check, and then ignore them. I was wondering if there are better
ways.

--
GCP



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