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Subject: Re: What is quiescence?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:14:57 08/02/01

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On August 02, 2001 at 14:55:24, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote:

>When a search is extended when it hasn't reached "quiescence", what exactly does
>that mean?  Does it mean that no captures are possible?  Is so, it would seem
>that seaches would be extended considerably.
>
>Alternatively, does it mean that the only captures possible are of pieces of
>lower value than the capturing piece?  Is this is so, then it seems that you
>would always stop searching right before the beginning of a combination (which
>to me seems like a very non-quiet position).

The quick overview:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/search.html

see also:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/chess5/page2.asp
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/anw/G13GT1/compch.html#quies
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/180a/990204.html



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