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Subject: Re: Static Exchange Evaluation (SEE) for pruning in quiescence (?)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:05:39 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 07:43:08, Bo Persson wrote:

>On August 19, 2003 at 06:19:59, Joost Buijs wrote:
>
>>
>>To me it looks wrong to skip losing captures from the quiescence search if the
>>losing captures are determined by a SEE that is wrong in some cases, e.g. pinned
>>pieces. If you use the SEE for move ordering purposes only this problem doesn't
>>exist.
>
>But it is always only an approximation, you just want it to be good enough to
>avoid flat out blunders.
>
>In a position like this
>
>[D]8/1p6/r1r5/8/8/8/8/R1R5 w - - 0 1
>
>SEE will believe that the black rooks are both defended, but they are not. This
>is not a "pin", but an "overload" which is still missed. You just can't get it
>all (cheap).
>
>
>Bo Persson

They are defended.

Rxa6 Rxa6

if you want a better example then it is better to put a pawn at b6 and not only
at b7.

Uri



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