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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 12:46:19 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 14:45:15, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>
>It depends on how you implement things.
>Once a mate in 3 is found (pv of 5 ply) any longer branch cannot possibly be
>a mate in 3 or less, so the engine can always stop when it finds a legal move
>at ply 6  (or even at ply 4 if it is only looking for shorter mates).
>If you do this (I guess you don't?) no explosion can occur in this position,
>unless the engine somehow forgets the matescore (which could indicate that the
>hashtable or something else that "remembers" is broken).
>
>Martin

Sure, I could implement something like that. However, that's not the point. The
point is that even without the mate existing in this position, my engine would
_still_ extend  the same line to 62 ply that is does now. That's what's
interesting.

/David



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