Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:20:45 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 16:21:43, Uri Blass wrote: >I think that it is clear that extending every nate threat by a full ply will >blow your search. > >If you do not use partial extensions then I suggest that you do not extend mate >threats unless you have some conditions to extend them only near the root and >not every where. > >Uri i extend mate threat by a full ply always. and my search isn't blowing up, at least not that i notice. then again, WAC 141 shows some strange behavior with my latest version: MUSE 0.89.10 UCI 30 MB: 1 00:00 -1.65 Kg2g1 2+ 00:00 -2.36 Kg2f1 2 00:00 -2.36 Kg2f1 Nf4d3 3 00:00 -1.22 Kg2f1 Re8b8 Kf1e1 4 00:00 -2.13 Kg2f1 Kg8h7 Bb3d1 Nf4d3 5 00:00 -2.16 Kg2f1 Re8e2 Kf1g1 Nf4d5 Kg1f1 6+ 00:00 -1.66 Qc1xf4 6 01:24 M6 Qc1xf4 Bd6xf4 Rh4xh5 g6xh5 Rh1xh5 Bf4h6 Rh5xh6 it sees Qxf4 after 0 seconds (this is on a slowly 1.4GHz P4), but needs a very long time to resolve it. but at least it sees Qxf4 in 0 seconds :-) cheers martin
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