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Subject: Re: PopeyeUCI Ver.1.0 - new matesolver for UCI

Author: F. Huber

Date: 00:21:47 06/26/04

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On June 25, 2004 at 18:08:37, Dann Corbit wrote:

>
>It should be noted that Popeye is very sensitive to search depth.
>This simple M4 problem:
>2kr1b1r/1pp1qp1p/3p2p1/1P1Pp3/2Q1P1n1/R4N2/1PP2PPP/5RK1 w - - bm Qc6;
>will cause it to groan on for a long time if default search depth is left to 10.
>
>If you set it down to M5 it solves it in 23 seconds.
>If you set it to M4:
>solution finished. Time = 7.735 s
>
>Possible solution:
>iterate from 1 to N to solve.


It should be noted that reading my short description ´PopeyeUCI.txt´
could also be strongly recommended. ;-)

"...
´SearchDepth´ should always be set to the correct value, otherwise
Popeye would eventually not find the shortest mate (or it would take
an extremly long time).
..."

Regards,
Franz.



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