Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:37:28 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 16:28:26, John Merlino wrote: >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 Thanks John, Well you can select 99 plies in the personality setup so I expect that it should go that far in infinite level. That's why I suspect it's a bug. Also if it's not going to compute anymore then it should kick out a move and stop it's clock even in the infinite mode. Jim
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