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Subject: Re: check extention explosion

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 03:21:51 04/03/04

On April 03, 2004 at 04:02:57, Aivaras Juzvikas wrote:

>i have got this problem here, check extention explodes in the endgame pawns +
>rook or queen, all these open files make it possible to check endlessly. how to
>restrict this? i added smth like this: if ply > depthtoreach + 4 then dont
>extend, where depthtoreach is the depth im searching to. but this is ofcourse
>not very good, because i still get those check extentions where its impossible
>to mate anyway. how did u solve this problem? an idea would be to store info
>into transposition table when not to extend, but how to find that out?

Are you extending checks, check evasions, or both?

The third option is quite appealing, but there are some issues. :-)

Cheers,
Vas

Re: check extention explosion Aivaras Juzvikas 03:29:13 04/03/04
- Re: check extention explosion Vasik Rajlich 07:48:55 04/04/04
  - Re: check extention explosion Aivaras Juzvikas 07:55:38 04/04/04
    - Re: check extention explosion Vasik Rajlich 08:03:07 04/04/04
      - Re: check extention explosion Vasik Rajlich 08:09:05 04/04/04
        
        Re: check extention explosion Aivaras Juzvikas 08:13:18 04/04/04
        
        Re: check extention explosion Vasik Rajlich 04:10:46 04/05/04
        
        Re: check extention explosion Aivaras Juzvikas 10:30:53 04/05/04
        
        Re: check extention explosion Joachim Rang 09:22:25 04/05/04
        
        Re: check extention explosion Vasik Rajlich 03:23:22 04/06/04

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