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Subject: Re: accuracy of quiescence search

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 10:01:18 11/25/00

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On November 25, 2000 at 11:26:54, Rafael Andrist wrote:

>How accurate is the result of the quiescence search? I think that the position
>at the end of the quiescence search is very unlikely and only the material score
>of this position is interesting. So I would think that it is better to take the
>positional score (excluding material score) of the position before the qsearch
>and then to add the material score that qsearch returns. Has someone tried this
>already? And if so, plays the program then better or worser?
>
>Rafael B. Andrist

I've tried this, and I'm pretty sure it plays worse.  Not entirely sure why,
other than the fact that there are sometimes large positional terms which can be
affected.  Passed pawns, open files, etc.

Will



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