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Subject: Forced moves

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 15:58:12 07/29/99


Do other program authors curtail the search when there is a forced move at the
root?

How do you detect that a root move may be forced?

Could you compare the values of the best and second-best root moves after a
search iteration to detect a forced root move?  (Granted, the second-best score
won't be accurate due to alpha-beta, but I figure that if the difference was
greater than a queen's value, you could still conclude that the best move was
forced.)

Thanks,

Ian



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