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Subject: Re: Promotions in SEE?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:22:10 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 14:47:32, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 09, 2002 at 12:46:39, Bo Persson wrote:
>
>>
>>Another idea is to *not* go into quiescence search when a promotion is imminent,
>>but instead extend the search another ply.
>>
>>
>
>
>Sure. I do the pawn push extension too. But you can still have some long capture
>sequences in q-search, where some of the captures are also promotions. That is
>what I am talking about.

Hmm, I always did capturing promotions. My data is for non-capturing promotions.

They cause a significant difference in material evaluation, so it's probably
worthwhile to include them in qsearch too.

--
GCP



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