Author: Will Singleton
Date: 13:40:43 09/23/00
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On September 23, 2000 at 16:28:09, William Bryant wrote: >I am adding a specific Mate search to my program and trying various >combinations of search settings. I was curious about the setting others are >using. > >For a search for mate (in an unknown number of moves) >I was going to set Beta to Infinity (32768), Alpha to a mate limit (32768 - 300) >and use iterative deepening, no PVS, ignore fail lows at the root >(which means it didn't find a mate at that depth). >I was also going to use NULL moves but no PVS since until mate is found, >you do not have a best move. > >For a search for mate in N, I was going to change alpha to Infinity - plydepth >(32768 - (N * 2)), and set the initial iterative depth to N*2 rather than use >iterative deepening. This should say if there is a mate at this depth. > >Does this sound like a reasonable approach? > >Any comments would be appreciated. > >William >wbryant@ix.netcom.com I used to have a mate search, which I would execute prior to my normal search, in special situations. I found it counterproductive, all things considered. I guess you are probably adding a mate search mode to your user interface, which would be an interesting and useful feature. Have any results indicating that it works significantly better than the normal search?
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