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Subject: Re: PV Maximums (plies and characters) in CM8000

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 14:33:08 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

Using Fritz4 I got essentially the identical behavior with 47 plies in "zero"
seconds before it stopped FYI.



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