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Subject: Re: Authors of Kaissa on quiscence search

Author: Sergei S. Markoff

Date: 22:39:41 09/26/04

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>>1. Checks with capture
>>2. Checks with threat to take some piece with see>0.
>>3. Discovered checks
>>4. Checks with rook or queen stands close to king with see>=0.
>>5. +1 additional check in each branch of quiescence.
>
>Whenever I try to introduce anything other than captures
>in my quiescence, my solution count goes way down.
>The reason? By generating all moves, instead of just
>captures, I end up doing way too much. I need to revisit
>this, but past testing has not been fruitful.
>

Some of this classes can be generated by special procedures. All non-discovered
checks, for example.

The other thing is to generate or not to generate check evasions if in
quiescence some side is in check. My quiescence now is really ascetic. It
generates only captures which can bring score to alpha and search its only if
see>=0. Is it really best scheme? Or not? This is the question :)



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