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Subject: Re: The same is true of Symbolic

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 14:40:50 05/28/05

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On May 28, 2005 at 16:51:54, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On May 28, 2005 at 15:46:44, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>I'm curious -- do you do any game post mortems?  I've seen several games where
>>GNUChess 5.07 (notalent) is down in score to Symbolic in the middlegame, by
>>sometimes more than 3 pawns, yet it seems to recover and win later in the game.
>>I guess this is where the speed difference is showing (700 MHz vs. 1400 MHz),
>>and Symbolic is getting significantly outsearched when the pieces start coming
>>off the board.
>
>Some of this is just chance, and some of it recently was due to a (now changed)
>tablebase probe trigger algorithm that was causing Symbolic to spend too much
>time on disk probes.  This may need some more adjustment; however, it's only a
>toolkit issue and will have no effect in the cognitive search with a target of
>only 1,000 position nodes per search.
>
>I also note that Gnuchess still has the ply limit overflow problem that causes
>it to hang in some KPK endgames.  It will lose a game on time but will be
>awarded a draw due to the opponent's lack of mating material.


I wondered why it did that sometimes.  I may try to figure out how to fix that.
Thanks for the tip.



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