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Subject: Re: Slow EGTBs - test position

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 14:15:56 01/16/03

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On January 16, 2003 at 17:03:07, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Simplest probable explanation is: you are probing everywhere when you have the
>opportunity. Crafty (and I presume some other programs) probe only first M
>plies. E.g. when they are doing N-ply search from the root position they probe
>only first N*2 plies (or N*3/2, or ... -- you got the idea).
>

I only probe within the N*1 plies then. And only if there is a reason to, that
is, last move was a capture etc.

So I don't think that is the explanation.

My probe numbers would be much bigger then, also.

/David



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