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Subject: Re: How I Learned to Stop Hating 141

Author: Andrew Platt

Date: 09:16:41 09/03/04

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On September 03, 2004 at 08:46:08, Uri Blass wrote:

>You do not need to do it.
>If you extend every check by 1 ply in correct way there is 0 chance to get
>position when the king is in check in the first ply of the qsearch.

It turns out that I had seen this last night so I wasn't going mad. The reason
was a bug introduced when changing the ordering of my search code that meant
that the check extension was not being applied for each move but only to the
position that was in check. This didn't matter when depth was high, it is
equivalent to doing it after making the move; but for low depths it meant I
called quiescent with the position being in check.

This has solved some of my puzzles as to why some things weren't being seen at
the ply I thought they would be seen at.

Andy.







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