Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 08:25:47 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 10:56:13, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >On August 24, 2004 at 10:50:07, Álvaro Begué wrote: > >>>I tracked the cause to the quiescence search returning mate, where it doesn't >>>actually explore all the possible variations. >>Your diagnostic is incorrect. There is no problem with returning mate scores in >>the quiescence search. You must be doing something else wrong. > >If I evaluate a position using the quiescence search and that returns "mate in >5", how can I be sure that it's really a mate in 5 if the quiescence search >hasn't explored all the possible moves? Q-search will never return mate in 5. I hope you are scoring mate as "MATESCORE-ply". anthony
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