Author: martin fierz
Date: 04:31:50 11/06/03
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On November 06, 2003 at 06:08:09, José Carlos wrote: [snip] > Checks in qsearch is a wide concept, I mean, how many plies do you try checks, >what creteria you follow to generate this or that check, when do you try all >moves to escape the check or only captures, how do you handle mate threats, when >do you accept stand-pat and when not... I have a complex logic in Anubis, with a >lot of decisions for each node, while in Averno I do captures and promotions and >stand-pat with eval >= beta. > > José C. i only generate checks on the first ply of my qsearch. but i only just started writing my chess program, so this is subject of testing and to change :-) my gut feeling is that 1st ply is good enough for most things, specially since you detect many problems after a null-move search which goes directly into qsearch. but of course i'd like to try different ideas there too... cheers martin
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