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Subject: Re: Crafty source code questions

Author: Shep

Date: 03:36:26 11/23/00

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On November 22, 2000 at 16:45:40, Jarkko Pesonen wrote:


>Another question about INCPLY 60 define in chess.h
>Can 60 be changed to some other value without destroying the search totally i.e.
>is some modification needed to make work reasonably. Is the value 60
>educated guess, result of years of work, or can any value work?
>
>40 seem to make it faster to move to another ply level
>100 makes it almost stall.

I've seen the same behaviour in Shredder where you can set selectivity
(==MAXPLY) up to 99 and it also takes much more time for each ply the higher you
set this value. My guess is that either some extensions "go wild" at such a high
depth or the internal data structures become "defragmented" (in lack of a better
term) and things run outside the CPU cache or whatever.

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Shep



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