Author: William Bryant
Date: 19:04:23 02/16/99
Dr. Hyatt, Following you discussion of checks in the Qsearch in rgcc, I reviewed Quiesce() in the crafty source. You calculate a delta value as follows: the delta = alpha - 8/10 of a pawn - the difference in material Do I understand correctly that, if the value of captured piece is not at least as great as this delta value, the there is no point is searching this capture and no point in adding it to the qsearch move list? Also, do you sort the captures by the least valuable attacker / most valuable piece with the idea that pawn capturing a queen will most likely generate a cutoff meaning that you can skip the rook captures knight move? Thank you. William Bryant wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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