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

Author: Zappa

Date: 20:04:04 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 20:38:10, Ryan B. wrote:

>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
>
>What do you mean by "I also like to crack engine q-searches"?
>
>Ryan

Lets just say Zappa's q-search (and I'm sure Rybka's and Fritz's and Shredder's)
 is a bit more complicated than Fruits.

anthony



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