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Subject: Re: Mate in 19 - Glaurung Seems Faster

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 10:25:00 12/01/05

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On December 01, 2005 at 13:05:18, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Don't worry - I'm using Shredder 9 GUI which does truncate the PV.  Here's the
>UCI log data for the mate announcement.

Thanks!  Nothing to worry about, then.

>I've played a few games with Glaurung lately and I have notice something that
>you have commented on before - in real games Glaurung doesn't seem that good at
>tactics.  This is a bit of a surprise since it is normally excellent a most test
>positions.  Have you thought about disabling most of your extensions to see if
>these are actually hurting Glaurung in normal gameplay?

I haven't made much experiments with this, but actually Glaurung doesn't extend
more than most other engines.  I suspect that the reason that Glaurung has
trouble
with tactics is simply that it is rather slow.

That Glaurung scores well in tactical test suites is a mystery.  I have observed
this
myself, but I can't explain it.  Perhaps it's a bug.

Tord



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