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Hi all,

One aspect of the uci protocol I am not 100% sure about is seldepth. How do you calculate this? Is it the maximum depth qsearch has reached? How does it combine with extensions?

Side question: should the depth we send in info string should be the iterative deepening depth, or should we also account for extensions?

Thank you very much,
Louis

AxolotlFever wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:38 pm One aspect of the uci protocol I am not 100% sure about is seldepth. How do you calculate this? Is it the maximum depth qsearch has reached?

In Amoeba, I compute it as the maximum depth reached in qsearch.

Side question: should the depth we send in info string should be the iterative deepening depth?

I use the iterated depth.
I also agree that both numbers, depth & seldepth, are barely related to the real depth reached in average during the search, due to extensions & reductions.

some engine calculate seldepth as the max depth reached in search/qsearch, some other (i.e. stockfish) calculate the max depth reached by a PV node