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Subject: Re: Mate in one revisited

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 19:06:11 10/02/05

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On October 01, 2005 at 08:13:00, Michael Diosi wrote:

> 8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/6Q1 w - - 0 1

Monsoon takes hours to see this because it plays the captures first and then
gets stuck in the qsearch swapping off all the other trades.  This is a really
interesting position and I wonder how other engines are solving it so quickly.
Naturally if you search checks before captures you will solve this but you won't
have as efficient a search tree.  Is there some logic for "that's a really
dangerous check!" other people have used?  Or is it more like "at depth=1 we are
30 ply deep in qsearch, stop already!"

Scott



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