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Subject: Re: What do you do in your qsearch?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:52:22 11/06/03

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On November 06, 2003 at 04:51:38, José Carlos wrote:

>  This position is easy, but interesting:
>
>[D]r2qk2r/pp3ppp/2pbpn2/4Nb2/PnBP2P1/2N1P3/1P3P1P/R1BQ1RK1 b kq g3 0 1
>
>  Black plays Ng4 with big advantage.
>  Anubis (complex qsearch) finds it in iteration 8, while Averno (simple
>qsearch) needs 12. Studying what the program was searching in qsearch in this
>position has been very interesting for me.
>  How does your program here?
>
>  José C.


You are asking the _wrong_ question.  You should ask "How _long_ does it take
your program to find this?"  Not "How deep does your program have to search
to find this?"

The two questions are _not_ the same thing.  12 plies to one program might
take a year on another program.

For Crafty, on my dual 2.8, this takes 12 plies and 42 seconds to find:

               12    20.02   0.08   1. ... Bc2 2. Qe2 O-O 3. f4 Bxe5 4.
                                    fxe5 Nfd5 5. Bd2 Nb6 6. Ne4 Qe7 7.
                                    Bxb4 Qxb4 8. Qxc2 Nxc4
               12    42.20  -0.24   1. ... Nxg4 2. Nxg4 Qh4 3. h3 h5 4.
                                    Ne5 Bxh3 5. Qf3 Bxe5 6. dxe5 Bxf1 7.
                                    Bxf1 <HT>
               12->  42.20  -0.24   1. ... Nxg4 2. Nxg4 Qh4 3. h3 h5 4.
                                    Ne5 Bxh3 5. Qf3 Bxe5 6. dxe5 Bxf1 7.
                                    Bxf1 <HT> (s=2)
               13     1:05     ++   1. ... Nxg4!!




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