Author: William H Rogers
Date: 15:27:31 01/30/04
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Hi Bob In the chess program that I wrote you select the ply depth that you want to play. It will only search to that depth and then return the best move that it found. It will use extensions, ie. quiesent and sometime will search several plys deeper. In the begining, I had a command to stop the search no matter what ply depth you were at and return the best move so far but it kept getting activated by accident so I removed it. I know of no program that will search to a deeper ply depth than what a operator sets in the begining of the program. Now setting the time per move is another question, most programs will search until either the max time has been reached or the operator stops the search. Some programs will continue to search a little deeper even though the time limit is passed. You can see this happen all the time in tourneyments. Bill
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