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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 09:21:39 01/12/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 15:18:47, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 11, 2002 at 15:12:10, Martin Giepmans wrote:
>
>>
>>It's probably one of those small bugs that are so easy to overlook.
>
>I don't think it's a bug, I think it is an extension problem. But I could be
>wrong.
>
>>There is a pattern: just before ----- (end of iteration?) the count is
>
>Yep.
>
>>way too high. After that (first move of next iteration) it seems ok again.
>
>They are way too high because of extension problems, I think.

Could be. Do you always extend ( when appropriate ) or do you let it depend on
alfa like "if material_balance+2 pawns>alfa" ? That could give a problem in this
case. Since you already have a checkmate score, alfa might be very low so you
always extend.

Tony

>
>>So first rootmove ok, second and next move probably not. Something wrong
>>with initialising the extension-counter when returning to the root??
>>
>
>I reset the counters before each iteration. It gives me more information.
>
>/David



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