Author: Marc D
Date: 13:14:07 04/10/05
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On April 10, 2005 at 16:08:42, James Constance wrote: >Why do engines sometimes display long lines and sometimes short lines? For >instance if an engine is analyzing a position at 12 ply it might display a best >line 12 moves long, and then when it sees an improvement it might just display >the first 3 ply. Hasn't it made up its mind? Or if the engine (junior in >particular) is at 16+ ply it might display only the first 2 ply in its analysis. > >Puzzled! I can only assume that it has something to do with the brute force analysis. When it finds good move lines it looks deeper and takes only the good moves (even only 1 move) for further analysis. But to know for sure you need the answer of an engine programmer... Marc
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