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Subject: Re: WAC 141 blowup

Author: Andrew Platt

Date: 04:53:44 09/02/04

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On September 01, 2004 at 15:07:31, Andrew Platt wrote:

>This is it! It was returning beta at certain points rather than the score so the
>mate threats were getting lost. It now finds it at ply 10 in just under a
>minute.

Sadly it turns out I was seeing bogus results caused by a missing check for
MAX_PLY that the mate extension made possible! In any case Uri and Bobs'
comments are well taken and flushing out yet more bugs in the search is critical
to solving this in a reasonable time.

But at least I now get the mate threats showing up!

Andy.



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