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

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 11:59:33 10/13/03

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On October 13, 2003 at 12:03:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 13, 2003 at 11:31:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 13, 2003 at 09:29:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>there are very big differences.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>There isn't a big difference if you are only talking about the q-search.
>>
>>If you do a check, you have to get out and that extends.  If you extend
>>on the check you don't extend when you get out and that extends.
>>
>>It is different in the normal part of the search, because if you extend on
>>a check you increase depth by one now.  You might reach the q-search if you
>>wait to extend when you escape check.  but in the q-search I don't see how it
>>is a "big difference".
>
>You don't have to apologize for not knowing basic tree math, you're excused.
>Had seen already in crafty code that it was done wrong there.
>
>Yet i had already posted years ago at CCC that if you extend when being checked,
>that this is better than when giving the check.
>
>What delivers more cutoffs for the hashtable:
>
>A)
>Re5+ (5 ply remaining)
>Kf7  (5 ply remaining)
>Rxa5 (4 ply remaining)
>
>B)
>Re5+ (5 ply remaining)
>Kf7  (4 ply remaining)
>Rxa5 (4 ply remaining)
>
>If you can answer that question then you'll know the answer to the basic tree
>searching question.

Assuming you handle the hash table correctly, both will produce the very same
result (except leaf nodes, of course).


>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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