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Subject: Re: One Reply Extension

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:07:18 02/20/99

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On February 20, 1999 at 21:31:13, Nobuhiro Yoshimura wrote:

>I have a question for how other programmers are  implementing it.
>When we use iterative-deeping and transposition table, it is very likely
>to get a good move from a hash table.   Since we get the move without
>calling a move-generator and start searching, I have no idea whether or
>not the node has only one move.
>
>How do you know ?
>Do you call a special check routine in order to know the node has a sinlge move
>when king in check?


In my case, when in check, I have a special legal move generator that I use
even before trying the hash move.  This is a pretty rare case overall, and
doing this lets me catch the case you are looking at.. because I know how
many legal moves there are before I ever search the first move, if I start
off in check.  If I don't, I never trigger a one-reply extension anyway.



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