Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:30:34 11/22/02
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On November 22, 2002 at 07:21:13, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 22, 2002 at 05:50:09, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>Vincent, >> >>You haven't read the article yet. READ IT. I have described everything I have >>done quite clearly, and have presented the results. All the node counts are also >>available at my website. >> >>Regarding your checkmate question: except for the "Mate in 4" and "Mate in 5" >>positions which I was interested to know only if the checkmating was found or >>not, in all other test positions (ECM, WCS, Neishtadt) the search was conducted >>to the mentioned depth even if a checkmate is found at eariler plies. This was >>done in order to ensure that the fixed depth results are comparable in terms of >>tree size. >> >>Omid. > >What do you search after finding a mate? >Does genesis search for a shorter mate and in this case does it knows not to >search when it get ply that means that no shorter mate can be found? > >Movei simply stop searching after finishing an iteration with mate score. > >Uri I would suspect he does like most everyone else. Search until you reach depth 2*N-1 where N is the mate depth as in mate in 9. I need to search 17 plies to verify that no shorter mate than mate in 9 exists...
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