Author: Bo Persson
Date: 05:19:34 10/20/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 21:12:20, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote: >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 > No, the qsearch does not solve *all* of your horizon problems, only some simple captures. If you only search capture moves, you might miss an important non-capturing move anyway, like mating the opponents king... In chess, you don't *have* to capture, so if the exchange looks bad, just pass and accept the static score! Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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