Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:03:11 01/04/01
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On January 04, 2001 at 04:05:02, Severi Salminen wrote: >Hi! > >I'm planning on programming SEE into my program today. I'd like to know whether >I "should" (well, of course I can do anything I want but) prune all losing >captures in qsearch or search them (after the good ones)? And what about equal >captures? What I mean is that if I prune, I get a speedup, but I lose a lot >positional info if that particular losing capture leads to (say) passed pawn or >similar. What do you do? > >Severi I do something close to that. I take the current material score, plus the 'score' computed by SEE, plus a fudge factor, and ask "does this at least get close to or more than alpha?" If yes, I search it. IE if I am a queen down, then winning a pawn won't help and it is futile to search the move even though SEE says it wins a pawn.
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