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Subject: Re: More Explosion

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 15:22:46 11/26/02

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On November 26, 2002 at 17:41:44, Martin Giepmans wrote:

>On November 26, 2002 at 17:21:28, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>[D]r4rk1/1p1n1pp1/1bq1bn1p/2pp4/p1P1N1P1/1N1PB2B/PPQ2P1P/R4RK1 w - - 3 19
>>
>>This position was one the leaf positions during search of the previously posted
>>position, that produced the most qnodes. Searching this position is even worse:
>>
>>time         nodes depth    score  pv
>>00:00:43.33   17Mn 01/01/17 +0.194 19. cxd5 axb3 20. dxc6 bxc2
>>                                   21. cxd7 Rxa2 22. Bxc5
>>00:00:43.36   17Mn 01/02/17 ---------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>        Time used: 00:00:43.36
>>        nps: 407748     nodes: 17684031 Q-nodes: 17683987 (99%)
>>        move order: 66%
>>        hash probes: 1  hash hits: 0 (0%)       hash usage: 0%
>>        pawn hash probes: 17684030      pawn hash hits: 17683997 (99%)
>>        EGTB probes: 0  EGTB hits: 0 (0%)
>>
>>I takes 43 seconds to finish ply 1!
>>As it can be seen from the output, there aren't any extensions going on here.
>>But the longest q-search line is to ply 17!
>>There's definitely something wrong here... :)
>>
>>/David
>
>Yes, must be a bug. With pruning in Qsearch disabled I need 77854 nodes
>to finish depth 5 ....
>
>Martin

I see now that after 19. cxd5 axb3 20. dxc6 bxc2 21. cxd7 Rxa2 22. Bxc5 (your
PV) white and black have a pawn that can promote (c2, d7).
Could that be the cause of the trouble?

Martin




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