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Subject: Re: What do you do in your qsearch?

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 10:32:17 11/06/03

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On November 06, 2003 at 11:47:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 06, 2003 at 11:04:03, Stefan Knappe wrote:
>
>>Hi José,
>>
>>>  This position is easy, but interesting:
>>>
>>> r2qk2r/pp3ppp/2pbpn2/4Nb2/PnBP2P1/2N1P3/1P3P1P/R1BQ1RK1 b kq g3 0 1
>>
>>6/16	0.34	-11	31381	f5c2 d1f3 e8g8 b2b3 b4d5 c1b2
>>6/16	0.42	-9	44038	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 b2b3 b4d5 <c1b2>
>>7/21	0.86	12	109589	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 g4e5 d6e5 d4e5 <h4c4> <d1d6>
>>8/22	2.11	62	298652	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 g4e5 d6e5 d4e5 h4c4 <d1d6> <c4g4> <g1h1>
>><b4d5>
>>9/27	6.47	46	1017372	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 h2h3 h7h5 c4e2 h5g4 e3e4 f5g6 g1h1 b4d5
>>10/31	22.09	96	3418183	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 h2h3 h7h5 c4e2 h5g4 e3e4 f5g6 g1h1 <b4d5>
>>11/37	1:12	110	10900548	f6g4 e5g4 d8h4 f2f3 f5g4 d1d2 g4h3 c3e4 d6e7 g1h1
>>
>>Matador finds Nxg4 at ply 6. In QSearch I only do SEE, good captures, some
>>promotions and stand-pat with eval >= beta.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Stefan
>
>Maybe it is because of evaluation.
>
>If you have a big score for bishop at h3 when there is no pawn at g2
>it may cause you to find it fast.
>
>You need to calculate lines like
>Nxg4 Nxg4 Qh4 h3 h5 Nh2 Bh3 and if you have no special extensions for them
>you cannot see it in 6 plies.

Bxh3 is a winning capture. I guess it's not (only?) a big score for h3-bishop,
but huge penalty for the naked white king, where 4 of 5 sorrounding king squares
are attacked by three black pieces including queen, two squares only defended by
king.

Gerd

>
>Uri



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