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Subject: Re: Chess processor boards for sale

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:30:34 06/28/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 13:55:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>>But this is not an engine. This is a final 4-ply evaluation extension. You must
>>still have the Rebel engine decide what positions to hand off to the chess
>>processor, and you must code different ply levels for Rebel's evaluation
>
>Why is this complicated?
>
>Why not simply replace the quiescence search function with a call to the DB
>chip?
>
>Cheers,
>Tom

you got it!

the idea is exactly this, *except* that the "quiescence" search is now a few
plies of non-captures followed by the traditional capture-only search + a static
evaluation.

But that's exactly it.



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