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Subject: Re: Quiescent Nodes

Author: Bert van den Akker

Date: 12:32:10 11/22/00

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On November 21, 2000 at 21:19:13, Michael Neish wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>Just a question about Quiesce().  I find that my program searches about 80% of
>its nodes in Quiesce() -- sometimes over 90% -- and only 20% in Search().  Is
>this normal?  I'm doing checks and quick return if the material score is about a
>Pawn below alpha.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike.

Checks in the quiesce search can blow up the search. This can cause 80%.

BvdA




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