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Subject: Re: Problem with extending to maxdepth

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:55:40 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 09:43:34, Albert Bertilsson wrote:

>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?

I have both of them but I have no limit for the number of extensions based on
the depth.

I may extend more than one ply(but less than 2 plies) in part of the cases when
the king is in check(dependent on the position and on the number of legal moves)

Uri



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