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Subject: Re: Qsearch Checks

Author: Michael Henderson

Date: 19:08:13 08/29/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 21:38:12, Tor Lattimore wrote:

>I recently tried putting Checks in my QSearch, this brought me to the question,
>should I stand-pat if i'm in check, but up lots of material? It does better in
>some positions if I don't allow it to, but it blows up the search as well. Also,
>is it better only to allow checks only at root of qsearch?
>Cheers
>Tor

examining checking moves in the qsearch will slow you down a lot.  I find it's
best to do check/singular response extensions in the main search.  The main
search is smarter than the qsearch so you should probably spend your search time
in that.



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