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Subject: Re: Search depths X/Y

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 01:49:12 07/22/04

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On July 21, 2004 at 23:52:10, John Merlino wrote:

[snip]

>Different engines report different things. Chessmaster does this also, and for
>The King, X/Y is defined as:
>
>X -- Brute Force Search Depth
>Y -- MINIMUM extension depth (Johan calls this the "nominal" search depth, i.e.
>only the best candidate moves beyond X plies have been analyzed)

I'm not quite sure I'm following here. So all moves are searched to depth X, no
question about that. Then the program determines candidate moves and these
candidate moves are searched to at least Y? And the non-candidate moves stay at
X?

I guess I misunderstand something, since it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
:)

Sargon



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