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Subject: Re: Problem searching too deep!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 01:05:47 05/28/02

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On May 27, 2002 at 23:09:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I put the 1/2 ply limit in to _prevent_ unlimited depth searches.  That was
>my point.  My limit seems to control tree explosion pretty well.  But I _still_
>can search beyond depth=64 if I don't put a limit in the recursive search call
>as well, because I can search beyond 20 plies in real positions, which would
>take me well beyond 60 plies with lots of extensions.  And it only takes _one_
>such line to blow the subscript bounds and cause bad things to happen.

I increased the limit from 60 to 200 at the cost of an additional ~150 kB.
But that's not important since its just a global array that will never be used.
I believe it is then safe to stop the search at 150 plies, that's 50 plies left
for extensions(!), it will simply have to do, even if I get a crash in 1 of
10000000 games ;)

-S.

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