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Subject: Re: PV during quiescence search?

Author: Charles L. Williams

Date: 09:01:52 03/22/99

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On March 22, 1999 at 02:29:58, David Blackman wrote:

>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.

Right now I have a very slow / dumb program, but hopefully it will get faster
and smarter.:)

Chuck



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