Author: Kolss
Date: 08:30:24 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 11:03:12, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >On August 24, 2004 at 10:39:52, Tom Likens wrote: > >>On August 24, 2004 at 08:45:56, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >> >>>What value do you return when you find a mate in the quiesce search? I used to >>>return a "mate" score but then I found this is not correct because many paths >>>were not considered in quiesce, so sometimes I got a "mate in n" score at the >>>root which wasn't really a forced mate. I've patched the bug by returning a >>>fixed value for now, but... which value is best? >> >>If you generate all replies to check in your qsearch this becomes a >>non-issue. > >I do generate all replies to check in quiesce, but I think that my problems are >caused by examining only the "good capture" moves versus all moves, which would >be required to return a mate score. In other words my quiesce tells me: "all the >moves I examined lead to mate", but the moves it examines are only a subset of >all possible moves. Hi, That means that you "stand pat" when you are in check. Not a good idea... Regards - Munjong.
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