Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:20:35 03/07/99
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On March 07, 1999 at 04:57:52, Dave Gomboc wrote: >My (not chess) playing software searches fine.. or so it seems, when I have an >"extend on capture" setting of 0 ply, 1/3 ply, 1/2 ply, etc. But if I set it to >1 ply, I occasionally hit a position where boom! there goes the stack. > >I am wondering if this is endemic to extending by a full ply or not. (e.g. maybe >I am hitting a repetition? I am not currently detecting those.) But it could >just be that I have buggy software! If anyone has noticed this behavior in >their software, I'd like to hear about what caused it. > >FYI, I am using mtd(f), and a "material-only" evaluation function, that is, very >coarse. > >Dave Gomboc Be careful with the full-ply stuff or you'll kill yourself. You may want to put in some debugging stuff to figure out why it's exploding so badly. I think it may also be a good idea to make the maximum depth quite large, since the games you otherwise blow up in will all be rated. bruce
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