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

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 13:46:57 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 10:37:29, Vasik Rajlich 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
>
>Very clever :) I also like to crack engine q-searches. You will find Rybka's a
>bit more difficult than most. In fact, I dare say impossible. ;)
>
>Re. nps, I am thinking about artificially doubling it. Kind of like what Junior
>did with their depths. I got already several emails asking what is wrong with
>Rybka or if there was an installation problem ..
>
>Vas


It is also possible that Rybka does all kind or quiescence task in eval. Since
it is a bitboard engine you can relatively easy do all kind of "captures" in
eval.

regards

Joachim



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