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Subject: Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display

Author: Daniel Shawul

Date: 04:43:48 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 07:19:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>It seems to me that Rybka's seemingly slow speed is caused by not counting
>quiescent nodes as search nodes.
>
>You can observe that Rybka's nodes per second drops dramatically in positions
>where there are lot of forced check sequences.
>
>I am actually pretty sure of this because of 2 reasons:
>
>1) it never displays the parts of the variation coming out of the quiescent
>search
>2) it can solve mates with an unrealistically small nodecount
>
>--
>GCP

 What if it doesnot have qsearch. It might be using sofisticated SEE.
 daniel

• Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Gian-Carlo Pascutto 04:53:56 12/05/05
  • Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Günther Simon 05:52:07 12/05/05
    • Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:53:36 12/05/05
  • Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Daniel Shawul 04:57:01 12/05/05
    • Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:02:16 12/05/05
• Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display Ryan B. 04:53:28 12/05/05

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