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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 09:40:03 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 11:44:39, David Rasmussen wrote:

>[D]2Q2n2/2R4p/1p1qpp1k/8/3P3P/3B2P1/5PK1/r7 w - - 0 1
>
>In the above position, my search tree explodes because of extensions. It takes >
>3 minutes and 42 million nodes to finish an 8 ply search. How does your program
>do?
>
>Any good ideas on how to limit extensions in such a position.
>
>P.S. Solving the position is no problem. It is a simple mate in 5 plies, and is
>found very early on at depth 1 or 2 or so. Still, there must be something
>unsound about my extensions, or at least room for improvement, when this
>position makes the tree explode.
>
>/David




My HyLogicChess has the following stats:
All extensions active.
Quiescence moves: 29% (no explosion, my average is normally have 40%)
Total moves searched: 11000
Speed; 84 kN/s
Move Ordering: 78% (normally 90%..92%)
[1] (0.18)  1.f3 (00h:00m:00s)
[2] (0.12)  1.Qb7 e5 (00h:00m:00s)
[3] (14.50)  1.Qxf8 Kh5 2.Rxh7 Kg4 3.Qxd6 (00h:00m:00s)
[4] (+Mate in 3)  1.Qxf8 Kh5 2.Rxh7 Kg4 3.f3 (00h:00m:00s)



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