Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 00:21:33 07/25/03
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On July 25, 2003 at 02:41:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >Now, a qsearch ending in checkmate may or may not really be a checkmate. After >all, we only tried certain moves and it could very well be that the checkmate >could be avoided. > >So, the burning question is... >What should we do when the qsearch ends in a mate? >There are lots of alternatives, from the primitive "return a mate" to "send a >danger signal up the tree and let the regular search deal with it" to >"extending" to... > >What is your favorite choice and why? You can second guess any score coming from qsearch. Not just mate. There is little practical difference between losing a significant amount of material and getting mated. I say be primitive. The qsearch already consumes too many nodes as it is.
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