Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:13:57 09/27/01
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On September 27, 2001 at 18:03:43, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 27, 2001 at 17:45:03, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>I thought all programs searched everthing one ply first, then two ply, then >>three, etc. If there's a MATE at one ply, then it would find it in a tiny >>fraction of a second, no matter which order it chose to look at the moves, no? >>Or is it doing extensions on other moves, even at ply 1? > >yes >it does a lot of extensions in this kind of positions. >it extend all the logical captures. >usually the number of captures is not big so it can finish the job very fast but >it is not the case in the relevant position. > Would it be reasonable, then, for modern programs to avoid doing extensions on the first several ply? Or for the first 1% of the allotted time? Or something like this?
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