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Subject: Re: Blathy problem - mate in 16

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:41:37 04/18/05

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On April 18, 2005 at 22:29:09, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 18, 2005 at 21:32:59, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2005 at 07:24:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>part of the problem is check extensions and part of the problem is probably
>>>pruning based on evaluation together with other factors that I should improve.
>>
>>Why should check extensions make any difference in this position?  Neither side
>>should be giving any checks.
>
>The problem is that most of the search time is not on the right line but in what
>happens after queen promotion.
>
>Movei cannot find the knight promotion in a reasonable time(I did not try more
>than 30 minutes on a fast PC) but almost all the search time is on queen
>promotion.
>
>After performing the knight promotion finding the mate is easy for movei.
>
>Uri

Note that check extensions was only a thought and I am not sure that it is the
problem.

single reply extensions after queen promotion may be a bigger problem(single
reply extensions are done also after a knight promotion but they do not help
much because depth reductions that is not null move pruning are also used and
probably they are used more after knight promotion).

Uri



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