Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:42:45 09/16/98
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On September 16, 1998 at 17:16:20, John Coffey wrote: >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 correct... my "basic search" is an attempt to search active positions to the point they are almost "quiet" or totally "quiet" by doing the various extensions I do. Then I tack on a capture-only search to clean up the last bit of uncertainty when possible... so that the static evaluator doesn't have to understand hung pieces, forked pieces, whether the king is in check or not, and so forth...
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