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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:42:42 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 13:41:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 11, 2002 at 13:15:26, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2002 at 12:47:32, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>How good is your move ordering?
>>>Maybe that is the problem.
>>
>>In this position, 99%. I am pretty sure extensions are the problem, as my
>>statistics show that I extend (in the longest line) to ply 62!
>>
>>But as far as I understand, my extensions are similar to everybody elses. So I
>>don't understand the behavior.
>>
>>/David
>
>I do not understand
>
>simple rules of fail high should tell you that if the score is a mate score
>[suppose the score is 9991 that means mate in 5 in my program (I should increase
>this number because of the not practical case of 9 queens +2 rooks+2 bishops+2
>knights that can produce 103 score based on only material values)]
>
>It means that in the next search
>I am going to use alpha=9991 because it is clear that the score cannot be lower
>than 9991 and lines of 62 plies are going to be pruned after 10 plies.
>
>My program does not search after mate but when it will know to search after mate
>then it is not going to search for lines that are too long.
>
>Uri

Correction:My program does not continue to do more iterations after mate but it
cares to finish the iteration even when a mate is found.

Uri



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