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Subject: Re: DF7 WM-Test Extra-Ply=10

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 17:57:49 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 20:41:43, Volker Richey wrote:

>Testcases collected by Michael Gurevich, Heinz-Josef Schumacher
>and Manfred Meiler
>
>WM-Test now with ExtraPly=10
>(minimal calculatiing time = 1200sec)
>
>http://www.vrichey.de/df7/
>
>
>
>(Extra ply: When the engine finds the solution, then it should not stop
>immediately. The correct move may have come up by chance. The program should at
>least finish calculating the current ply depth. This corresponds to the setting
>Extra ply = 1. If you want to be sure, you can make the program go one or two
>plies deeper. This may, however, greatly extend the processing time.)

Yes, this is important. I recall testing Fritz 7 on one of the positions and
noticed that after some 30 minutes it switched back to the wrong move, so....

                                    Albert



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