Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:27:04 06/27/98
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On June 26, 1998 at 11:47:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On June 26, 1998 at 11:03:24, Inmann Werner wrote: > >>Today I did some "time waste counting" of my program. >> >>There I found something amazing for me (maybe not for you). >>From all nodes visited during search, >>quiet search takes more than 50% of all these nodes! >> >>Is this normal or is the program stupid? >> >>I don´t allow null-move in quiet search. In the test, I only produce beating >>moves, rochade and pawns conversions. >> >>I did the test with different positions. >> >>How much time do other programs spend in the quiet search? >> >>Werner > >I am surprised that you produce castling moves (rochade) in quies search. As far >as I know, this is quite unusual. Do you think that a position where a castling >move is possible is kind of unquiet ? Or what's the idea behind it ? > >Uli Captures change score drastically, so you must do them in q-search. Same for checks. So if castling is something your evaluation likes, why not do it in q-search? Vincent
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