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Subject: Re: Problem searching too deep!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:19:36 05/28/02

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On May 28, 2002 at 09:09:18, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On May 28, 2002 at 04:05:47, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>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 ;)
>
>If you'd be in my programming team, either you or me would be looking for a new
>job now. ;) A simple additional if-statement at the beginning of search makes
>this 100% correct in all cases and slows down your engine by a _very_ small
>factor. So basically you're just careless here - and therefore maybe also
>careless in other places. ;)

I prefer to be careless in these cases.

If there is something that I believe that it cannot happen and it happens then I
can learn from the fact that the program crushed.

If I try to be careful I may never know about the problem because the program
may run inspite of extensions that I did not expect.

Uri



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