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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