Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:46:41 09/17/98
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On September 17, 1998 at 15:31:59, John Coffey wrote: > >>But within that framework, I look at captures as deeply as I can follow them, >>which *could* be 30 plies although it is nearly impossible to construct a >>position where that might happen... >> > >Maybe so, but experience has shown that it is possible to have 20 captures >in a row if something isn't done to narrow down the field. > >Thanks a bunch, > >John Coffey It could happen. But try to create a position where each side can make 10 consecutive captures with no intervening "quiet" moves that would stop a capture search dead. It is *very* difficult. My "capture" search is not a big part of the tree. If you count interior nodes, plus "leaf" nodes (because you *must* search positions at depth=0, and then you count captures below those, it is only about 30% of the total search in the middlegame, and in endgames it is almost zero...
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