Author: Alessandro Scotti
Date: 08:30:33 08/24/04
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On August 24, 2004 at 11:25:47, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On August 24, 2004 at 10:56:13, Alessandro Scotti wrote: > >>On August 24, 2004 at 10:50:07, Álvaro Begué wrote: >> >>>>I tracked the cause to the quiescence search returning mate, where it doesn't >>>>actually explore all the possible variations. >>>Your diagnostic is incorrect. There is no problem with returning mate scores in >>>the quiescence search. You must be doing something else wrong. >> >>If I evaluate a position using the quiescence search and that returns "mate in >>5", how can I be sure that it's really a mate in 5 if the quiescence search >>hasn't explored all the possible moves? > >Q-search will never return mate in 5. > >I hope you are scoring mate as "MATESCORE-ply". Yep, which translated for humans and relative to the node that started the quiesce search might mean "mate in 5"...
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