Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 01:39:12 01/15/02
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>>In my previous posting, I should have written >>about QSEARCH seeing the mate, not about >>the program seeing it. Obviously my program >>also sees the mate if there is no pawn on h7, >>but my qsearch function does not. >>Leen > >My qsearch also does not see the mate if there is no pawn at h7. >If there is a pawn at h7 then it is dependent on alpha. > >Generating checks in my qsearch can help my program to see the mate without a >pawn at h7 and generating checks independent of alpha can help me to solve the >problem of dependence on alpha but I am not sure if these are good ideas. Yes, qsearch is allways a trade-off between speed and accuracy. My approach is to make qsearch as fast as possible and I don't care about checks in qsearch. Severi
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