Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:21:44 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 Much worse. One easy example would be to do Bxf6 gxf6 in the q-search and not notice that your king is now horribly exposed. or that you just gave your opponent an outside passed pawn. etc...
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