Thanks for your reply and for validating that I have the right idea. Your description sounds a lot like What I am trying to do. Only instead of using global variables I am passing a pointer through. I thought that doing it that way would be easier and safer with less chance of side effects. I may ...

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I am a fairly new chess engine programmer. I made a pretty simple chess engine that I am trying to figure out how to find the Principal Variation during a search. I have read many places that say this is one of the simplest ways to do it. However I just can't seem to get it right. A ...