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Subject: Re: what is the result of your qsearch here? Correction !!!!

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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