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Subject: Re: Mate in 30

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:15:23 09/08/04

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On September 07, 2004 at 21:03:32, Michael Neish wrote:

>On September 07, 2004 at 10:32:27, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>Sure -- because we didn't tune against this position.
>>
>>:-)
>
>Excuse my naivety, but what is there to tune?  Gnuchess seems to extend by one
>ply when there's a check, and by another if there is only one legal reply.
>Shouldn't this alone take it far enough?
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike.

I did not read the source code of gnuchess but no chess program does it
unless the programmer does not care about strength of the program.

Extending checks and one reply by one ply everywhere is going to cause the
search to explode and I will not be surprised if the program cannot get deep
because of extending useless lines.

Uri



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