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Subject: Re: Mate in 19 - Glaurung Seems Faster

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:06:14 12/01/05

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On December 01, 2005 at 12:46:53, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On December 01, 2005 at 10:42:00, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>Centrino 2 GHz
>>
>>[D]3n3k/bp3pp1/8/8/R1Q2R2/6p1/B2p1PP1/q1rn2K1 w - -
>>
>>Engine: Glaurung Mainz (128 MB)
>>by Tord Romstad
>>
>>10/45  0:11   0.00     1.Rh4+ Kg8 2.Rh8+ Kxh8 3.Qh4+ Kg8
>>                       4.Qxd8+ Kh7 5.Rh4+ Kg6 6.Qd6+ Qf6
>>                       7.Qxg3+ Qg5 8.Qd6+ Qf6 9.Qg3+ Qg5 (4.858.674) 431
>>
>>11/47  0:21   +M19     1.Rh4+ Kg8 2.Rh8+ Kxh8 3.Qh4+ Kg8
>>                       4.Qxd8+ Kh7 5.Rh4+ Kg6 6.Qd3+ f5
>>                       7.Qxg3+ Kf6 8.Qd6+ Kg5 9.Rh5+ Kxh5
>>                       10.Bf7+ Kg5 11.Qg3+ Kf6 12.Qg6+ Ke5
>>                       13.Qe6+ Kf4 14.g3+ (9.646.864) 453
>
>Hi Steve,
>
>The PV is incomplete, which makes me a bit worried.  Glaurung should never
>announce
>mate unless the PV ends in a mate.  Do you use a GUI or some other tool which
>truncate
>the PVs?  Otherwise, I have a new bug to track down.  :-(
>
>The current development version of Glaurung is much faster in this position, by
>the way.
>On my iMac G5 (which is about half as fast as your Centrino), it announces mate
>in 21
>after 6 seconds and 8 plies, and reduces this to mate in 19 at the next
>iteration after 11
>seconds.  The reason for the improved solution time is simple:  I am
>experimenting with
>unlimited checks in the qsearch (Glaurung Mainz searches checks only in the
>first 3 plies
>of the qsearch).
>
>Tord

unlimited checks in the qsearch cannot work.
You may not have a limit of plies but with no limit the search is going to
explode.

Uri



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