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Subject: Re: Buggy check extensions, back to square one =(.(ignore it)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:00:29 03/21/03

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On March 21, 2003 at 02:59:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 21, 2003 at 02:45:36, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On March 20, 2003 at 12:17:23, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everybody!
>>>
>>>For those of you with a good memory you probably saw my posts about WAC, and
>>>that I implemented check extensions and got a really nice improvement.
>>>
>>>After playing some 150 games with about 10 lockups I also know that my
>>>extensions aren't bug free =(.
>>>
>>>In my stupidity I thought that all that needs to be done to get extensions work
>>>is to add this:
>>>
>>>First in Alpha-Beta:
>>>if (CurrentPly >= MAXPLY) return Eval();
>>
>>In XiniX I use:  MAXPLY=min(60,iteration*3)
>
>I think that it may be more logical to try max and not min otherwise results are
>almost the same as MAXPLY=60(the only exception may be endgames when you can get
>to iteration 21.
>
>Uri

I see that I did a mistake and posted too fast.

Uri



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