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

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:07:46 10/14/03

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On October 13, 2003 at 23:00:39, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

[snip]

>Last but least, extending in check is a hell of a lot cheaper too.
>
>Instead of looking whether a move gives a check you now only have to look a
>single time whether you are IN check.

Except that "looking whether a move gives a check" has to be done for all the
moves you do at ply N, whereas "look a single time whether you are IN check" is
done multiple times at ply N+1.

Sargon



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