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Subject: Re: Quiescent Explosion

Author: macaroni

Date: 22:00:17 06/26/03

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On June 27, 2003 at 00:24:19, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 27, 2003 at 00:18:57, macaroni wrote:
>
>>What are the most used methods for sorting out the 'unworthy' lines? I currently
>>use the history heuristic...
>
>Generally when I think of "sorting out the 'unworthy' lines", I think of forward
>pruning. The history heuristic is mainly concerned with improving your move
>ordering (which does help you get more cutoffs and in turn prunes inferior
>lines), but the history heuristic by itself doesn't get rid of bad lines.
>
>The most popular example of forward pruning is null-move pruning.
>
>>but my main search seems to be doing ok anyway, it's
>>the quiescence search that's having problems, with the q search I use biggest
>>capture, smallest attacker, is there something much better?
>
>Are you considering every possible capture? Or are you only considering "good
>captures"?

thats the thing, how do I select 'good captures'? I can order them (biggest
piece captured, smallest capturer), but what possible methods are there for
checking 'good captures only'?
Thanks



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