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Subject: Re: A question about quiescence search

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 18:22:57 10/19/02

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>I believe we do qsearch to see if there are any hidden surprises (a solution for
>the horizon effect). So the objective of doing a qsearch is to find whether the
>current positions score is really what we think or whether there is a big
>surprise which pulls it down drastically. So if we assume that the score is at
>least the static score then we are losing the advantages of qsearch, the reason
>at first place why we opted to do a qsearch

'cuse me.

what happens if there are no captures, you return the static score (I
suppose...) and clearly if the side to move has available captures then the
thing could only get cooler for it.

get fun.

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