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

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 04:16:03 09/10/02

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On September 09, 2002 at 20:02:15, scott farrell wrote:

>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.

If you want a different approach:

http://ccc.it.ro/search/ccc.php?art_id=212962

Regards,
Miguel





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