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Subject: Re: Node count differences with Omids verification search

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:39:16 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 10:30:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

I do not know what most do but I do not care after finding a mate to find the
shorter mate.

The result is the same even if I do not find the shortest mate.
I care only to finish the iteration.

Uri



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