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Subject: Re: Crafty question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:15:42 03/21/01

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On March 21, 2001 at 08:09:46, David Rasmussen wrote:

>In Craftys NextMove() function, it seems to me that captures that are losing
>according to Swap() are discarded altogether. Am I missing something? Or is
>Crafty highly selective?


They are not discarded.  They just don't get searched until after the moves that
might cause a cutoff are searched.  losing captures get searched along with the
rest of the moves...



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