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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:21:45 12/05/05

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On December 06, 2005 at 00:11:22, Ryan B. wrote:

>On December 05, 2005 at 23:04:04, Zappa wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>In what direction?  Better knowledge of what captures to search or other
>factors?
>
>Ryan

better knowledge of which checks to search in the qsearch.

Uri



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