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Subject: Re: Question for Hyatt about Alpha/Beta

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:15:47 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 15:08:18, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 05, 2004 at 14:35:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I can think of a dozen exceptions.  Rook at e1, bishop at f1, but the bishop at
>>f1 can't move as my pawn at g2 is attacked twice by my opponent.  Etc...  I
>>simply hope the search is up to sorting those kinds of details out, where years
>>ago I had to evaluate them due to the shallow search depths we were getting.
>
>I suppose that is the true reason for our apparent disagreement -- Unlike you, I
>still get these shallow search depths.  My engine is probably reaches depths
>comparable to those you got ten or fifteen years ago.

I think that you underestimate your engine.
It seems to get similiar depth to crafty.

For example in the following position it got depth 11 even in blitz 4+2

[D]2rq1rk1/pb1n1pp1/1p2pn1p/3p4/2PP3B/P1QB1P2/1P2N1PP/R3K2R w KQ - 0 14



Uri



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