Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 08:24:28 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 10:40:15, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >On August 24, 2004 at 09:29:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On August 24, 2004 at 08:45:56, Alessandro Scotti wrote: >> >>>What value do you return when you find a mate in the quiesce search? I used to >>>return a "mate" score but then I found this is not correct because many paths >>>were not considered in quiesce, so sometimes I got a "mate in n" score at the >>>root which wasn't really a forced mate. I've patched the bug by returning a >>>fixed value for now, but... which value is best? >> >>I return the mate score. I fail to see any problems with this. For example, if >>q-search sees: >> >>Qxd5 Rxe8 mate >> >>this just means that it can't play Rxe8, and thus will have to stick with the >>static score before Qxd5. > >Ok but then you don't propagate the mate score out of the quiesce, right? And why not? anthony
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