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Subject: Re: TSCP for Tom

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:32:44 12/09/99

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TSCP has two things that will increase the node count beyond what it "should"
be: a check extension and a quiescence search. If the computer is in check on
ply 1, it will actually search 2 ply. The quiescence search searches capture
sequences after the brute-force search.
-Tom

On December 09, 1999 at 13:31:07, William H Rogers wrote:

>I have run your test several times.  Just one question.  On ply one it shows the
>number of nodes as 134 and being as there are only 20 possible moves, how did
>you get that number?
>Thanks
>Bill



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