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  1. /*
  2.     Protector -- a UCI chess engine
  3.  
  4.     Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Raimund Heid (Raimund_Heid@yahoo.com)
  5.  
  6.     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  7.     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  8.     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  9.     (at your option) any later version.
  10.  
  11.     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12.     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13.     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  14.     GNU General Public License for more details.
  15.  
  16.     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  17.     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  18.  
  19. */
  20.  
  21. #ifndef _search_h_
  22. #define _search_h_
  23.  
  24. #include "protector.h"
  25. #include "position.h"
  26. #include "movegeneration.h"
  27.  
  28. /**
  29.  * Search the best move in the position specified by 'variation'.
  30.  * If acceptable solutions are specified and the search process yields
  31.  * an acceptable solution in two consecutive iterations the search
  32.  * will be terminated and the last acceptable move will be returned
  33.  * as best move.
  34.  *
  35.  * @param acceptableSolutions the acceptable solution moves (optional)
  36.  *
  37.  * @return the best move found in the conducted search
  38.  */
  39. Move search(Variation * variation, Movelist * acceptableSolutions);
  40.  
  41. /**
  42.  * Initialize this module.
  43.  *
  44.  * @return 0 if no errors occurred.
  45.  */
  46. int initializeModuleSearch(void);
  47.  
  48. /**
  49.  * Test this module.
  50.  *
  51.  * @return 0 if all tests succeed.
  52.  */
  53. int testModuleSearch(void);
  54.  
  55. #endif
  56.