Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:36:01 03/09/03
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On March 09, 2003 at 16:03:45, Uri Blass wrote: >If I have perfect quiescent search that give me exact evaluation of every >position(win,draw or loss) then even paying 10 plies may do you unbeatable. When I say "perfect", I don't mean that you will get an exact score (win, loss, or draw). I mean that you will always evaluate "quiet" positions, and you won't miss any forcing lines. >I do not know what you mean by perfect qsearch. What I mean by "perfect qsearch" is that you will evaluate quiet positions where there doesn't exist anything "violent", so the position's evaluation is unlikely to change significantly. If your qsearch does "captures only", you could be missing complete branches of forcing moves that start with checks, or other forcing moves, and you might stop your qsearch too early in a position where there are checks, or mate threats, or forks, pins, etc., but no captures. The "perfect" qsearch would handle these things.
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