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Subject: Re: AsySearch: a good idea?

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 11:56:13 01/04/98

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On January 04, 1998 at 06:03:58, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>On January 03, 1998 at 13:13:11, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>Lets compromise.
>>The search depth GENIUS shows is NOT the full-width. It is
>>full-width + extensions and what is the other search-depth-indicator ?
>>
>>If Genius shows e.g. 6/18
>>6 cannot be full-width. Otherwise it would have seen Rxe6 because the
>>plot of this position is NOT that deep.
>>So - the first number is NOT full-width. it is full-width and maybe the
>>extensions are asymmetric.
>>I can compromise to this.
>
>Well, I suppose that 6/18 means that the first 6 plies are searched
>full-width, or near-full-width. In fact maybe some optimizations are
>done in the "full width" plies, like null-move, but it normally sees
>everything a real full width search would see. Or almost everything,
>99%.

I'll bet the 6/18 means 6 plys NON-EXTENDED.  6 plys is not too far
if you throw out check and other extensions.

Can I see the fen for the re6 move you're talking about?


-- Don



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