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Subject: Re: To check or not to check, this is the quiescence question

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 11:39:15 10/13/03

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On October 12, 2003 at 06:32:25, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>Recently I conducted some extensive experiments with two versions of Falcon, one
>with checks in quiescence and one without. Falcon already has lots of
>extensions, but adding checks in quiescence resulted in a significant boost for
>tactical strength.
>
>I tested the following options:
>
>a) checks everywhere in quiescence
>b) checks only in the first ply of quiescence
>c) no checks in quiescence
>

Some triggers in the current path (checks and other foreced moves), some
heuristics and you may decide whether using a,b or c at runtime.

Gerd

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