Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 00:48:14 01/05/01
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On January 04, 2001 at 07:26:19, Steve Maughan wrote: >Severi, > >>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? > >I prune like hell!! Got to get to the next ply ASAP!! ME TOO, ME TOO, AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! >I prune all losing captures in QSearch but search equal captures. Haven't done >too much experimentation with alternatives. So you prune if eval+see<=alpha? Or do you just check the see value?? Do you use eval or material as the base value (that is material+see<=alpha)? Severi
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