Author: John Coffey
Date: 14:16:20 09/16/98
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On September 15, 1998 at 21:11:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >1. you really can't extend forever, because the most captures you can >ever have in a row is 30, because then you are fresh out of piecs to >capture. > >2. I don't "extend" on captures as I think you are suggesting, although I >do follow captures in the "quiescience search" but there captures are *all* >I consider which limits this quite effectively... Thanks for the reply. Let me see if I understand this correctly .... You search out to a certain depth, and then beyond that you look at every capture until there are no more captures to be made? A "quiescience seach" is an attempt to determine if the position is still active? John
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