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Subject: Re: Computer chess schools of thought

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 04:07:10 07/01/02

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On July 01, 2002 at 06:50:51, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On July 01, 2002 at 06:34:31, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>>I presume the reason for this is the slow InCheck implementation, so the idea is
>>>to call the heavy functions as little as possible.
>>
>>And search less nodes as you do not have to search the check evasions. I think
>>that is the real winner.
>
>Oh well I don't do that in qsearch. It just means that I might evaluate a
>position where the king is in check, but that's still better than to evaluate a
>position where the king has been captured, IMHO. :)
>

In that case you could just assign a very high material value to a king, so you
can determine a captured king by the material balance and skip evaluation with a
fail low ... Then you have no need for calling InCheck in qsearch at all

Richard.

• Re: Computer chess schools of thought Sune Fischer 04:18:45 07/01/02
  • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Russell Reagan 10:04:26 07/01/02
    • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Robert Hyatt 06:58:37 07/02/02
  • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Richard Pijl 04:50:12 07/01/02
    • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Sune Fischer 05:57:20 07/01/02
      • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Richard Pijl 06:28:49 07/01/02
        • Re: Computer chess schools of thought Richard Pijl 14:43:44 07/01/02

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