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Subject: Re: shredder 8 and weird PVs? (sandro?)

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 17:06:43 01/20/04

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On January 20, 2004 at 14:56:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>Particularly big sacrifices can take a while for engines to see, they fail high
>>10 times faster if you just execute the move so nullmove and other pruning
>>devices gets a better root window to work with.
>
>I rarely use that approach, as it doesn't prove the sacrifice was the best
>move at the root position if you force the game a few moves down...

This is from a game I played today.
You can sit and wait for Crafty to "prove" g5!, good luck :)

[D]1r3r1k/pppb2pp/2n2q2/4pp2/8/2PP4/PPQNBPPP/R4R1K b - - 0 1

-S.



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