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Subject: Re: Quiescent Explosion

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 06:42:25 06/27/03

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On June 27, 2003 at 04:01:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 27, 2003 at 01:23:29, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On June 27, 2003 at 01:00:17, macaroni wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>Depending on how fast your engine is, most people do a normal 6-8 ply search
>>(without QS), and then apply their QS evaluator to lines where there are
>>captures, checks, & promotions.  That's probably the easiest implementation.
>
>It seems unlikely that anyone does this. What you're talking about would require
>a breadth first search, which, AFAIK, only Ulf Lorenz has tried to do, and then
>only partially...

A long long time ago....that's how I did it.  And it worked, ok.  It was just
easy to implement & use.  I never said it was the best method.  :)



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