Author: leonid
Date: 04:42:16 08/24/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 13:20:13, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On August 23, 2001 at 12:37:18, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>>Try this first: captures before other moves. It works nicely, specially in the >>>quiescence search (if you don't have one, you should make it). >>In q-search you should 'only' do capture moves, some do checks. But IMO checks >>make the q-search to big a part of search. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > >In my "inexperienced" opinion, I believe that checks should be allowed at least >(and maybe no more than that) in the first move of the quies(). That solves >some problems that nullmove creates. My experience do say the same. In the chain of moves first goes "active" and later all "passive". At the head of "active" goes checking moves and after all moves that lead to "material advantage". Material advantage - taking of some piece or promotion. Passive - all other moves. Cheers, Leonid. >Regards, >Miguel
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