Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 04:49:21 07/22/04
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On July 22, 2004 at 04:49:12, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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 From what little I understand about Chessmaster's search, X means that no null-move pruning was done. anthony
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