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Subject: Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth?

Author: Angrim

Date: 23:39:19 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 19:25:46, Bob Durrett wrote:
>Thanks for your comments and thanks to Bob Hyatt too.
>
>I guess what this is all about is that I do not recall having read anything here
>at CCC dedicated to the special problems of those unfortunate engines who are
>faced with a user command to limit the ply depth to a certain depth.  Of

The whole point of having a command to search to a fixed depth is to make
the engine play weaker, it would be dumb to spend time trying to make it
play better when this is activated.

Angrim



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