Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:06:20 02/23/00
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On February 23, 2000 at 20:31:58, Jeff Anderson wrote: >In the last ply of a search tree why not search only captures? Any >non-capturing move will not change the eval significantly anyway. I mean I >don't think minor positional considerations that could occur fives moves from >now are very important, if there is an actual positional problem in the line the >computer chooses, it would just see it on the next turn and steer away from the >problem line. Would this not speed up the search somewhat? >Jeff This is pretty much the idea behind the quiescence search... The last few plies of search are typically only captures... (and sometimes other interesting moves like promotions and checks) -Tom
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