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Subject: Suggestions about measuring search depths?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 18:29:15 03/17/00


I've been thinking I'd like to see which programs can analyze or search the
deepest when given an epd position.  Mostly fed through Winboard, allthough with
some programs, Crafty & Bringer, it works out better for me if Winboard isn't
used.

Also, some programs can't read an epd position from Winboard, too bad.  I saw a
couple of Winboard programs say that the move to make in this recently posted
position was K-e4, obviously they didn't see the position, so I can't measure
those.
[D]r1b2rk1/1p2bppp/1p2p3/3q4/Q2P4/3B4/PP2KPPP/2R4R w - - 0 20

If they have the Analyse feature I'd use that, if not they could just search the
position, and my thought on that is that on both cases just let the program
analyse or search for 15 minutes, and then see how deep the search was in
Winboard's debug file, or if the program can generate one, it's own log file.

I'm not sure what to set Winboard's game time at for the best results, posibly 1
move in 30 minutes hoping that the program won't make a move before the 15
minute limit is up.

This interests me because my computer is slow and the searches don't get very
deep.

Any suggestions?  Am I wasting my time or is this worth doing, etc.? Thnaks.

Pete



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