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Subject: Re: Problem searching too deep!

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 05:51:04 05/27/02

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>It seems better both with respect to speed and accuracy to deal with this
>problem at the root, if possible.

I think its impossible. Your safety-margin idea doesnt really work because the
point of a qsearch termination is indeterminable (nice pun huh).


>After all, scores probably don't change much from a 45 ply search to a 60 ply
>search (theoreticly), but the strange scores you get around ply 60 by cutting
>may change the scores all the way up the tree, I don't know.
>
>Perhaps the best would be to completely remove the depth limit and just let it
>go as deep as it can in the given timeframe?

That doesnt work either. Or all your arrays that hold takeBack Information for
example get far oversized.

Georg



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