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Subject: Re: See'ing makes my program blind ?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 10:13:23 10/18/04

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On October 18, 2004 at 13:02:14, GeoffW wrote:

>Reading through my code, I have spotted another big bug which would be causing
>problems in this area.
>
>As I mentioned before I was only calculating a SEE value in my qsearch. I had
>forgotten I have now got the following code in the qsearch function
>
>/* are we in check? if so, we want to search deeper */
>weAreInCheck = inCheck(sideToMove);
>
>if (weAreInCheck)
>    generateAllMoves();   /* crude way of generating check evasions */
>else
>    generateCaptures();
>
>The generateCaptures() will calculate a SEE score for each move but the normal
>generateAllMoves() will skip SEE calculation and have a 0 score for all moves.
>
>So when I am in check the SEE code will badly screw up

when i'm in check in alphabeta i don't enter the qsearch. if i run into a check
in the qsearch, i drop out to alphabeta again. i don't see any other sensible
way of doing this.

cheers
  martin

• Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? Zach Wegner 19:10:48 10/18/04
  • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? martin fierz 01:15:19 10/19/04
    • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? Tord Romstad 07:34:39 10/19/04
      • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? martin fierz 23:21:26 10/19/04
        • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? Tord Romstad 04:02:05 10/20/04
        • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? Uri Blass 01:49:06 10/20/04
      • Re: See'ing makes my program blind ? Uri Blass 08:39:41 10/19/04

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