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

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:52:07 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 07:53:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 05, 2005 at 07:43:48, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>SEE doesn't solve mate in x problems.
>
>--
>GCP


Have you seen that it never gives exact mate scores,
instead always '+32000'?

Guenther




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