Forcing gnuchess to take a certain move

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From: Roger Uzun
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 02:38

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If I am at the start of SelectMove, and I know via lookahead,
what move it is I want to make, what is the easiest way
for me to modify SelectMove to bypass search(), and just
make the move I have thought up previously (while
thinking on opponents time, flag.easy = false).

I want to take better advantage of lookahead, but do not
want to miss draws, mates etc...and want to be ready
to calc new board positions etc, on next move.
basically I am looking for a safe way to get gnuchess
to make a move that it has precomputed, without calling
search again, which can be slow,because as it stands
gnuchess does not save a lot of time pre-calculating 
moves when flag.easy is off, seems most of the effort
is wasted.

-Roger
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From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Subject: Forcing gnuchess to take a certain move
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Date: 19 Jan 94 18:38:57 PST
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