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Subject: Re: No Qsearch?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 16:34:59 08/26/03

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On August 26, 2003 at 19:25:39, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Ricardo,
>
>>"For example I have never used capture searches and rely instead on a static
>>swap off routine."
>>
>>This seems to indicate that CG does not employ a qsearch. I also understand
>>that Junior does something similar. I wonder how this is done? I would
>>presume some type of accuracy tradeoff must be involved, but I wonder what?
>>I'm very curious about how this is all done and why doesn't everybody do it
>>this way?
>
>I guess it's either some sort of SEE or a routine to resolve the effect of
>attack tables.
>
>>How is all the effort that goes into creating a good eval compatible with
>>such a handling of non-quiescent positions? It just seems kind of wacky to me.
>
>It's different - and it clearly did work well in the 80s and 90s.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve

It's working pretty well right now in Junior too.

I haven't been able to find anything on this using google or citeseer. I guess
how to make this work is being kept secret? It would be nice if RL could be
persuaded to reveal this.



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