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Subject: Re: probobly dumb stat display question.

Author: martin fierz

Date: 05:12:05 10/08/03

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On October 08, 2003 at 08:02:48, macaroni wrote:

>I recently noticed this piece of analasys from YACE I think it was. All good.
>But why does it have several depth 5's and depth 6's marked (and many other
>plys)? and the first depth 5 search has a 10 ply pv?! A fair few engines seem to
>use this system, can anyone explain?

several lines at the same depth because it's doing a windowed search. it has to
re-search once it fails high on a search. (that's what the "+" in D5+ means).
more than 5 ply in the pv because of search extensions (typically at least on
recaptures and checks).

cheers
  martin



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