Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:28:26 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 16:21:33, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 27, 2000 at 18:35:09, John Merlino wrote: > >>I cannot remember who asked this, nor on what thread the question was asked, so >>I'm just posting this here on the hopes that the person who asked me will find >>it. >> >>The question was: What are the maximums, both in plies and in characters, that >>The King/CM8000 supports? >> >>Answer: The King has an internal maximum PV length of 63 plies, and the GUI >>supports PV strings that are up to 2048 characters long. >> >>jm > >Hello John, >I think the question was how many plies will CM8K search. I gave it the >following position from the endgame tutorials. > >8/p7/P7/8/8/6K1/8/6k1 b - - 0 1 > >Chessmaster 8000 searched 46 plies in about 2 seconds and stopped (Infinite >level). The clock continued to run but CM8K was not searching anymore. This >looks like a bug to me. >Jim Well, that's exactly what happens to me too, but I'm not SURE it's a bug. Obviously, infinite time means that the engine will never return a move (it's basically the same as analyze mode). However, the engine stopping might be something intentional in Johan's code. I'll ask him and get back to you as soon as he gets back to me.... jm
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