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Subject: Re: Opinions requested -- what to do when qsearch ends in checkmate...

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 01:34:35 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?

I don't see where opinion comes in. In a node where all legal moves are not
considered static eval is the minimum.

Amir



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