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Subject: Re: Losing captures thrown out

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:54:29 07/09/99

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On July 09, 1999 at 10:07:11, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>I see that some chessprograms throw losing captures (determined by the
>swapvalue) out of the qsearch. However is that safe? Ordering by swapvalue ok,
>but when you throw SwapVal<0 out you can oversee serious tactics, or not?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bas Hamstra.

You miss some things.  But you go over 2x faster, so you get another ply
deeper.  And you find some things you would miss.  Which is better?  I
throw out losers.  Have done this basically forever, all the way back thru
Cray Blitz.



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