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Subject: Re: A question about quiescence search

Author: Nagendra Singh Tomar

Date: 05:26:29 10/20/02

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On October 20, 2002 at 08:19:34, Bo Persson wrote:

>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

I think we all understand that ..

tomar



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