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Subject: Can ANYONE else let me know how they do it>

Author: scott farrell

Date: 17:02:15 09/09/02

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On September 09, 2002 at 12:27:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 09, 2002 at 11:30:01, scott farrell wrote:
>
>>This may seem obvious, but my chompster is only a todler.
>>
>>I have tried adding it to the score, like:
>>INFINITY+12  (for mate in six), this does a few bizare things,
>>like the first move played shows a score of INFINITY+1, the second move
>>INFINITY+3 (which is obviously from the hastable), and then INFINITY+5 etc etc.
>>
>>Is it posible to read it from the hash table?
>>
>>I currently read my PV from the hashtable.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Scott
>
>
>It should always be MATE - ply, where MATE is something like +INFINITY
>or whatever large number you want, and ply is the ply at which you find you
>have no legal moves and are in check...  that makes deeper mates look worse
>than shallow mates to the mating side.



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