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Subject: Re: When to stop searching captures?

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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