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Subject: Re: Quiescent search question to programmers

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:43:41 03/09/03

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On March 09, 2003 at 15:43:37, Russell Reagan wrote:

>I think that most people subscribe to the school of thought that says that
>quiescent search is not perfect, so do it fast and "good enough" for most
>situations. If you could have a perfect quiescent search, what price would you
>be willing to pay? One ply of full width search? Two ply? Time to depth takes
>twice as long? I am interested what programmers with more experience than myself
>think about this.


If I had a _perfect_ q-search, one ply of normal search would be
enough.

:)



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