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Subject: Re: How to detect combinations?

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 03:43:55 08/03/01

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On August 03, 2001 at 01:08:22, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I saw that my weak engine quickly lost some games or missed some other victories
>by not recognising many common combinations. I have written codes for detecting
>them and tried many extensions. Unfortunately, they made the search tree grew
>exponentially (2-6 times slower) but did not help much, many combinations were
>still 4 or 5 plies deeper than the full search deep (8-9, some branches are
>extended to 13-15). The situation was even worse when a combination did not make
>any check or capture before mate.
>
>Could someone give me some suggestions/comments?
>Thanks in advance.
>Pham


Do you use nullmove or any other kind of pruning to speed up your full search?



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