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Subject: Re: The Scalable Search Test

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 12:19:44 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 14:06:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 19, 2000 at 13:30:47, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2000 at 13:22:31, blass uri wrote:
>><snipped>
>>>You can also decide to have a time limit for searching with the extensions(for
>>>example 1/10 of the time per move).
>>
>>I mean that you can decide search in the first plies with the extensions and
>>after 10% of your time to continue to search the rest of the plies by regular
>>search if you do not discover something interesting.
>
>What you mean is to use some kind of special matesearch, and if that doesn't
>gain you anything, use the standard search instead.
>
>I doubt that you'd gain much by this for standard chess, but then again, at
>sufficiently large timecontrols it wouldn't hurt much either.
>
>Actually most loser's chess programs already use this technique. There exists
>a special kind of search called proof number search that is extremely fast in
>proving mates.
>
>--
>GCP

Well, not without some adaptation.  Otherwise, it can find mates in 118 without
seeing the mate in 2. :-)

Dave



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