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Subject: Re: funny search results, nullmove

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 07:08:06 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 10:01:15, Marcus Prewarski wrote:

>On December 03, 2003 at 06:59:20, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>
>>As others have mentioned, allowing checks at least at the first ply in the
>>qsearch (I do it at all levels in the qsearch) helps greatly in positions
>>like this.
>
>When you say "allowing checks" do you mean extending checks?  So does this mean
>if you detect a check in the qsearch you will drop out of it and go into the
>regular search?

I'm sorry that I wasn't quite clear.  I meant to search safe checks, and not
only
safe captures and pawn promotions, in the qsearch() function.

Tord




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