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Subject: Re: Chessmaster selectivity

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 04:48:22 08/09/99

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On August 09, 1999 at 07:20:53, Shep wrote:

>On August 09, 1999 at 07:07:02, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>
>>SS=6 is a bit too low and fails sometimes. In many positions needs much more
>>time to find a good move than with SS=10. Maybe 8-10 is the optimum.
>
>Maybe even something slightly higher, like 11-14? I will try that when I find
>the time.
>The 32 in my "6666 Deep" is of course exaggerated and was just interesting to
>test. However, it was a revelation to see that it makes almost no difference in
>closed positions (the few POSxx from LCT 2 I tested showed only 1-2 seconds time
>difference and no ply difference).
>
>Probably we shouldn't underestimate the importance of Max Depth as well.
>20 is maybe too small. I don't know what value corresponds to setting it to
>"Max" (I only found out yesterday that the slider has a "Max" setting :).
>
>---
>Shep

Don't forget there is danger to overlook some good move the higher the
selectivity is...
Genius and Shredder have 12...




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