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Subject: Re: Problem with extending to maxdepth

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 06:43:34 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 09:04:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 26, 2003 at 08:46:13, Martin Bauer wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2003 at 08:11:23, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>>
>>>Previously I've used check-extensions, and now I added single-reply extensions.
>>>This has given me some problems because it seems that the engine tries to extend
>>>to much now! Some positions are just searched to very few plies. I guess it has
>>>to do with one side only having one move to do (single-reply) and the other side
>>>constantly checking, and this makes the search go deep immediatly and not
>>>returning until searching to max depth or getting 3-fold repetition.
>>>
>>>I've solved this temporarily by only allowing to extend at most Depth plies, so
>>>when searching to ply 6 maximum search depth should be 12 plies. Anybody have a
>>>better idea?
>>
>>I think the maximum number of extensions should be limited. I limit to an fix
>>number (7) independent of the depth, but your idea sound logical, too.
>
>I do not limit extensions in movei.
>I do not like that idea and I prefer to get bugger depth by adding pruning.
>
Do you avoid getting to deep by having pruning rules or do you have fractional
depth increases to limit the extending?

>Uri



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