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Subject: Re: Quiescence search - checking & check evasion moves and Hsu

Author: Marc Boulé

Date: 16:58:18 04/10/02

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>It's possible that a large reported qsearch is either the result of counting
>nodes differently than other progs, or doing checks, or both.  I count nodes in
>make_move, and test for checks only in the first ply of qsearch, which results
>in about 50% qsearch vs internal nodes.
>
>It's odd, but I think if people aren't aware of differences caused by how nodes
>are counted, they may spend time trying to fix things that aren't broken, or
>vice-versa.
>
>Will

This might be a stupid question but how does one use the transposition table
during q search? Since 50% of nodes are in q search, it would be very usefull (I
currently don't do any hashing during qsearch). Writing and reading to/from the
hash table is not legal since the subtrees aren't complete (only captures are
expanded, and to variable depths).

Marc



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