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Subject: Re: It's working now and BOOM!!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:20:25 11/21/01

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On November 21, 2001 at 04:33:10, Ralf Elvsén wrote:

>On November 20, 2001 at 21:09:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 20, 2001 at 21:02:45, James Swafford wrote:
>>
>>>So you're arguing my original point.  After some consideration
>>>I think either approach is fine.
>>
>>I think it's silly not to limit if the limit doesn't cost
>>anything and may save you ass someday or in some freak
>>positions.
>
>I think it's silly to limit if the absence of a limit doesn't cost
>anything and may save you ass someday or in some freak
>positions.
>
>If one has a SEE maybe one can use the value of this function at some
>stage of course to limit the qsearch.
>
>Ralf
>
>

Dont' search captures that appear to lose material.  That and the fact that
each capture removes one piece is limit enough to keep the q-search reasonably
small...

>>
>>>Or are you proposing something else?  Perhaps a different depth or
>>>something dynamic?
>>
>>I use max quiescent depth = nominal search depth * 2
>>
>>--
>>GCP



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