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Subject: Re: hiarcs not going deeper

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 10:46:54 11/12/00

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On November 12, 2000 at 13:33:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>There is likely a simple explanation.  If you expect to search to 10 plies,
>you can tune your extensions to solve those tactical issues you want to solve
>within 10 plies.  But going to 11 or 12 may well cause the extensions to
>over-trigger and bog the search down badly.
>
>This has always been a problem, which is why varying the hardware speeds makes
>no real sense once you get away from the speed of the hardware the engine is
>actually developed on.  Some might not tune this way.  Others do.  It is
>certainly a good idea to maximize performance on the machine you are going to
>use...

could be the reason, yes.
hiarcs was , as far as i remember it, always "tuned" or made especially
for 40/120 tournament time control.

maybe you are right and the problem is that it was optimized for
older machines, and now has problems coming deeper.

but - this was always with hiarcs.
hiarcs always took much time to come deeper. therefore i
told mark to make special search-levels for longer time control.
email-chess levels where hiarcs is more selective than in tournament-mode.



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