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Subject: Re: What to do with Horizon effect?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 07:22:11 11/03/98

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On November 03, 1998 at 10:01:23, Inmann Werner wrote:
>
>>
>> IE Crafty finds this at depth=10, about
>>10 seconds or so on my ALR.  It's not hard to make it find it at depth=6 or
>>7.  But would it play better in games?  No...  it is *easy* to over-extend and
>>find wonderful tactics but get killed positionally...
>
>Wow!
>How do you come done at this position to depth 10 in 10 seconds? How fast
>is your ALR or is Crafty so fast?

In highly tactical positions like this many programs tend to go very fast.

"DarkThought" locks onto the key move Nxd6 after 2 sec. in iteration #8
and starts with iteration #13 after 10 sec. while running on a
600MHz Alpha-21164a.

=Ernst=



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