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Subject: Re: The Scalable Search Test

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 12:16:09 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 07:25:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 18, 2000 at 18:39:27, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>
>>Infamous examples are these blocked pawn-endings where programs may
>>hit 30 plies or deeper within a few seconds. If you then get a fail-high
>>on iteration 40 (or so) it in extreme cases can take hours to resolve the
>>fail-high.
>
>I seem to recall Schaeffer once published some results to illustrate
>that you should restart the search in that case, so iterative deepening
>can get the move ordering right again.

That was for a fail low.

Dave



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