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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 09:47:29 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 12:40:03, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

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

My program performs similarly if only searching to ply 4, but try letting it
search to ply 9, even though it has already found the mate. That is what I am
talking about.

/David



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