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Subject: Re: PV during quiescence search?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 23:29:58 03/21/99

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On March 21, 1999 at 20:05:08, Charles L. Williams wrote:

>Is it advantageous to keep updating the PV after entering the quiescence search,
>or should this search be kept very simple?  I'm getting ready to add one,
>captures only.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Chuck

I doubt that the PV will help much in the quiescence, except possibly for
debugging. I never bothered with one. Time taken by recording PV is pretty
minimal, so that shouldn't be a problem unless you have a very fast / dumb
program.



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