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Subject: Re: Extending Checks

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:50:50 09/12/04

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On September 11, 2004 at 11:47:35, José Carlos wrote:

>On September 10, 2004 at 21:35:58, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>I read, somewhere, and I forget who, about
>>if 1 legal move, extend 2 ply,
>>2 or more legal moves, then 1 ply.
>>Anyone have any stats on the effects
>>on play of the above instead of
>>always extend 1 legal move. Does it
>>blow up?


>  I guess you read it in Ed's programming page about Rebel. He does that in
>qsearch, and regarding checking moves generation.
>  I tried his idea in my private program and it didn't work for me. It generated
>too many nodes, but I probably did something wrong.

Checks in QS works provided you hash in QS. With exploding checks hash
move-ordering is crucial.

My best,

Ed



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