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Subject: Re: Material-only search from the starting position

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 01:10:55 01/11/05

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On January 10, 2005 at 17:35:44, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>>I run a quick test with Kiwi and it found a mate in 14 for pos #1 in 11 plies
>>and a mate in 13 for pos #2 in 12 plies. Running the standard evaluation took
>>the same number of plies but found mate in 11 and mate in 10 using about 30%
>>less nodes.
>
>
>is your material only search version publicly available on your site. does it
>use mtd(f) and how does it compare in speed to andrew williams program.
>

There's no public material version, sorry... I just replaced the evaluation
function and recompiled it to run the test. The program uses MTD(f) and I don't
know how it compares to Andrew's program, although judging from posted results
Kiwi seems to be quite slower.



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